Why is Pope John Paul II sometimes called “The Mercy Pope”?
A. While serving as Cardinal of Krakow, Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II) worked diligently and succeeded in having the ban on Saint Faustina’s writings lifted. As a pope, John Paul II focused his second encyclical on the Divine Mercy in “Dives in Misericordia” (The Mercy of God). On June 7, 1997, the pope visited Faustina’s tomb while on a visit to Poland and stated that the Divine Mercy had “formed the image of his pontificate.
