 The members of the CCS approved the cause on 15 May 2018 and Pope Francis confirmed Hlond's heroic virtue allowing Hlond to be named as Venerable on 19 May.The American Jewish Committee questioned the pope's decision to name Hlond as Venerable in a letter sent to Cardinal Kurt Koch (the letter was also sent to the CCS and to Cardinal Pietro Parolin) in which the AJC noted that Hlond was anti-Semitic in his writings and not only failed to stop a 1946 pogrom he blamed the Jewish victims for it.The current postulator for this cause is the Salesian priest Pierluigi Cameroni.