Edward Otto Gorski was born in Chicago, Illinois, on August 19, 1930. He attended St. Constance School in Chicago for his elementary education and graduated with honors from Fenwick High School, Oak Park, Illinois, in 1948. After two years of college studies at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, he entered the Dominican novitiate at St. Peter Martyr Priory in Winona, Minnesota, where he was assigned Stanislaus as a religious name and later made his first profession on August 31, 1951.

Philosophical studies followed in River Forest and theological courses in Dubuque until September 1955, when Brother Stanislaus was sent to the College of St. Albert in Oakland, California, to complete his theological training along with a number of student brothers from St. Albert's Province assigned to studies in Holy Name Province at a time when the studia in River Forest and Dubuque were seriously overcrowded. On December 15, 1956, he was ordained a priest in San Francisco's Mission Dolores Basilica.

Father Gorski's first assignment after his return to the Midwest in 1958 was to teach philosophy at Loras College in Dubuque while serving as Assistant Director of Smyth Hall, a residence for students preparing to enter the Dominican novitiate. In 1964, he began full- time studies for a doctorate in theology at Aquinas Institute in Dubuque. After he completed the doctorate in 1967, he was assigned to the faculty of St. Xavier College in Chicago as an Associate Professor of Theology and Chairman of the Theology Department. During the time he served at St. Xavier, Father Gorski lived at St. Dominic's House (Euclid Avenue), St. Pius V Priory, Blackfriars, and with newly formed Dominican communities on South Oglesby in Chicago and Washington Street in Oaklawn.

Although chronic heart trouble marked his life, Father Gorski's physical condition never interfered with his ministry as a priest and teacher. However, in mid-October 1978, he suffered a severe angina attack and underwent intensive treatment and tests at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park. As an additional precautionary measure, his doctor arranged for special tests to be administered in the cardiovascular unit at Rush- Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago. Father Gorski died of cardiac arrest while undergoing an angiogram test to determine possible arterial blockage. The best resources in medical equipment and expertise were immediately available but incapable of reviving him.

Following funeral services at Mercy Hall Chapel on the campus of St. Xavier College, Father Gorski was buried in the Dominican plot at All Saints Cemetery in Des Plaines, Illinois, on October 28, 1978.