{"id":27404,"date":"2013-01-15T16:42:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T20:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/01\/walter-ciszek-chained-but-free\/"},"modified":"2013-01-15T16:42:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T20:42:50","slug":"walter-ciszek-chained-but-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/01\/walter-ciszek-chained-but-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Ciszek: Chained, but Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Walter%20Ciszek.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Walter Ciszek.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2013\/01\/Walter Ciszek-thumb-250x319-13605.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"319\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>Father Walter Ciszek (1904-84) is likely to be one the 20th century&#8217;s finest American priests &#8211;ever. If you don&#8217;t believe me read John Levko&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/americamagazine.org\/sites\/default\/files\/issues\/2012\/pdfs\/01-07-13web.pdf\">Chained, but Free: How Walter Ciszek gained spiritual liberation in Lubyanka prison<\/a>.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If you still don&#8217;t believe my assertion, read Ciszek&#8217;s <i>With God in Russia<\/i> and <i>He Leadeth M<\/i>e. Still lacking the same conviction that I have proposed, then you are hopeless. Father Walter Ciszek is not great because he survived 23 years of Soviet prison life; he&#8217;s the finest American priest&#8217;s of the 20th century because he allowed God to use his humanity and the Soviet prison to point to someone greater: Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Levko piece is a terrific testament to a life completely <i>in communion<\/i> with God. The article is too complicated to be digested here so you&#8217;ll have to read it for yourself. Enjoy it, but spend some time thinking and praying about what you&#8217;ve read.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You can read Father Jim Martin&#8217;s piece on Father Ciszek <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/rev-james-martin-sj\/canonization-walter-ciszek_b_1375661.html\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ciszek.org\">Ciszek Prayer League site<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father Walter Ciszek (1904-84) is likely to be one the 20th century&#8217;s finest American priests &#8211;ever. If you don&#8217;t believe me read John Levko&#8217;s &#8220;Chained, but Free: How Walter Ciszek gained spiritual liberation in Lubyanka prison.&#8221;&nbsp; If you still don&#8217;t believe my assertion, read Ciszek&#8217;s With God in Russia and He Leadeth Me. Still lacking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/01\/walter-ciszek-chained-but-free\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Walter Ciszek: Chained, but Free<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[3055,2943],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}