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Vatican Cancels Sainthood Cause for US Priest Walter Ciszek

Advocates said the decision followed years of study and that Ciszek’s witness still inspires devotion and prayer.

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Monsignor Ronald Bocian of the Walter Ciszek Prayer League said "the formal canonization process" for Cizkek "has been stopped."

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The Vatican stops the cause of the Jesuit beatification Walter Ciszek: a clandestine missionary in the Soviet Union who spent more than twenty years between prison and gulag before being released in 1963 thanks to Kennedy

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National Catholic Register broke the news on Friday, April 17, 2026.
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