Today, May 1, 2011 is a very significant day for Catholics around the world for two very important reasons: 1st - Today is the second Sunday of Easter which is the feast of The Divine Mercy. 2nd - Today is the day of Pope John Paul II's beatification. A Short Background In the 1930's, a Polish nun named Sister Faustina Kowalska received revelations from our Lord Jesus Christ - who appeared to her on February 22, 1931 - about God's mercy. She wrote all of these revelations in a diary. But in 1959, the spreading of The Divine Mercy message was banned by the church, and Sister Faustina's diary was placed on the Index of Forbidden Books which is a list of publications prohibited by the Catholic Church . The prohibition of Sister Faustina's writing was due to the faulty and confusing translations of her diary that were submitted to the Holy See. In 1965, Pope John Paul II who was then Cardinal Karol Wojtyla intervened. A new investigation ...