Divine Mercy Chaplet conspiracy

[milez97]

On Facebook, it suggested a page to me called Divine Mercy Conspiracy or something of that matter. I ventured onto the page and it was basically a bunch of posts against praying the chaplet, saying it is a conspiracy, and saying that Sr. Faustina is a false saint. It also seemed to contain members who are very traditional Catholics. I consider myself fairly traditional, but I wouldn’t say anything of this degree. Does anybody have some insight as to why some people are so hung up on the Divine Mercy devotion? I know there is no definite answer, but I would just like some insight and your opinion on the matters.

ps. Don’t make this an argument against others who post. Thanks

 

[Chatter163]

Why is any insight needed? St. Faustina has been declared a saint of the Church, and that is a fact. If one does not wish to pray the chaplet, that is one’s prerogative. Does not seem necessary or advaisable to enter into a public discussion about someone else’s conspiracy theory.

 

[milez97]

Why is any insight needed? St. Faustina has been declared a saint of the Church, and that is a fact. If one does not wish to pray the chaplet, that is one’s prerogative. Does not seem necessary or advaisable to enter into a public discussion about someone else’s conspiracy theory.

I understand she is canonized, I am just curious as to why people would have anything against it. I want to know what types of things about the devotion would possibly bother anyone.

 

[Brendan]

I’ve seen that before as well.

The arguments were mostly based, either directly or by implication, on it being so closely identified with JP-II

And, of course, that it just wasn’t ‘done’ prior to Vatican II, ergo, it is tainted

The main points were that, though the events happened prior to Vatican II, the initial assessment of St. Faustina’s writings indicated conflicts with Church teachings.

The problem being that St Faustins writings , the original being in Polish, what the Vatican initially evaluated was a paraphrase into Italian.

Then - Cardinal Wojtyła (JP-II) produced a more accurate translation that was accepted, but accepted by a post-Concillular Church.

Thus, what was finally approved was thus not trustworthy to a small subset of ‘traditional’ Catholics, simply because it was rejected by the Church they agree with, and approved only the intervention of a man they despise.

 

[Dempsey1919]

St. Faustina is a canonised saint. The Divine Mercy Devotion is approved by Rome. Therefore, in the words of St. Augustine: Rome has spoken, the matter is finished.

Don’t listen to radical traditionalists (sic) who are more Catholic than the Pope.