In early 1978, a Polish cardinal petitioned the Vatican to remove the
suppression of the devotion, which was being practiced without sanction in
his diocese, and the Vatican replied in the negative, confirming the
suppression.  By this time the original devotional prayer that Sister
Faustina composed in 1935 had been illegally replaced by an oecuмenized
version framed in New Order terminology -- with substantially changed prayers
to promote non-Catholic beliefs and the heresy of universal salvation.  Among
other things, it omitted Sister Faustina's quotation of Our Lord's words
condemning "pagans, heretics, and schismatics."  Later in 1978 a Polish pope
was elected, and the now modernized version, twice condemned, was now entered
onto the Novus Ordo liturgical calendar on the Octave of Easter.  The "Feast
of Divine Mercy" is strictly Novus Ordo and has no basis in the traditional
liturgy.