{"id":82211,"date":"2026-04-18T09:03:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82211"},"modified":"2026-04-18T09:03:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:03:41","slug":"vatican-halts-sainthood-cause-of-jesuit-priest-gulag-survivor-walter-ciszek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/vatican-halts-sainthood-cause-of-jesuit-priest-gulag-survivor-walter-ciszek\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Halts Sainthood Cause Of Jesuit Priest, Gulag Survivor Walter Ciszek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>EWTN News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \">The Vatican has halted the cause for sainthood of Father Walter Ciszek, a Pennsylvania-born Jesuit priest who ministered to fellow prisoners while enduring more than 20 years of imprisonment in Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \"><a class=\"text-red-500 hover-underline-animation-red\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jesuits.org\/stories\/who-was-walter-ciszek-sj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ciszek<\/a>\u00a0(1904\u20131984) is known for his spiritual writings \u201c<a class=\"text-red-500 hover-underline-animation-red\" href=\"https:\/\/ewtn.co.uk\/article-he-leadeth-me-9-things-to-know-about-father-walter-ciszek-a-20th-century-catholic-hero\/#:~:text=Other%20discussion%20questions%20about%20Ciszek%20include:%20*,placed%20on%20starvation%20rations%2C%20and%20psychological%20torture.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">He Leadeth Me<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a class=\"text-red-500 hover-underline-animation-red\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/1063146.With_God_in_Russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">With God in Russia<\/a>,\u201d which he wrote after surviving torture by the Soviet secret police and hard labor during his imprisonment from 1941\u20131963. \u201cThe diocese has been informed that the documentation relating to his cause does not support advancing his cause for beatification or sainthood,\u201d Bocian said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1776503021\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Vatican Halts Sainthood Cause Of Jesuit Priest, Gulag Survivor Walter Ciszek\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From EWTN News: The Vatican has halted the cause for sainthood of Father Walter Ciszek, a Pennsylvania-born Jesuit priest who.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82212,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82211\/revisions\/82212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}