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CANON 1395Sister Faustina Kowalska: Writings (Holy Office, 6 March, 1959) AAS 51-271.A Notification by tbe Holy Office:The Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, having examined the alleged visions and revelations of Sister Faustina Kowalska of the Institute of Our Lady of Mercy, who died in 1938 near Cracow, has decreed as follows:1. The distribution of pictures and writings which present thedevotion to the Divine Mercy in the forms proposed by thisSister Faustina, should be forbidden;2. It is left to the prudent discretion of the Bishops to removesuch pictures which may have been already exposed for worship.From the Holy Office, 6 March, 1959.AAS 51-271; Holy Office, Notification, 6 March, 1959.
Quote from: Canon Law Digest, 1959CANON 1395Sister Faustina Kowalska: Writings (Holy Office, 6 March, 1959) AAS 51-271.A Notification by tbe Holy Office:The Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, having examined the alleged visions and revelations of Sister Faustina Kowalska of the Institute of Our Lady of Mercy, who died in 1938 near Cracow, has decreed as follows:1. The distribution of pictures and writings which present thedevotion to the Divine Mercy in the forms proposed by thisSister Faustina, should be forbidden;2. It is left to the prudent discretion of the Bishops to removesuch pictures which may have been already exposed for worship.From the Holy Office, 6 March, 1959.AAS 51-271; Holy Office, Notification, 6 March, 1959.
You are corecty that it is merely an invalid ban by Antipope John XXIII.Pope Pius XII did NOT ban The Divine Mercy.