They Banned Her Diary for 20 Years — Because of What She Saw After Death

They Banned Her Diary for 20 Years — Because of What She Saw After Death

For twenty years, the Church forbade the diary of St. Faustina Kowalska: it could not be printed, it could not be shared. And the pages that most alarmed the men who had to judge it were precisely the ones about what happens after death — hell, purgatory, and the last instant of life.

In this video we reconstruct, with dates and documents in hand, a true and little-known story: what Faustina actually wrote about the afterlife, why the Holy Office blocked her writings with the decrees of 1958 and 1959, which sentence was misunderstood because of a faulty Italian translation, and how — once the Polish original was finally studied — the same Church lifted the ban in 1978, all the way to her canonization in 2000.

Not cheap words of comfort, but facts: a diary blocked, re-examined, and recognized by the very authority that had stopped it.

At the end of the video, a prayer we can repeat together, for one another, for the souls we carry in our hearts. Write “Amen” in the comments for the person you are praying for.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 A Diary Forbidden for 20 Years
00:44 Who Was St. Faustina Kowalska
01:43 The Vision of Hell
02:40 Purgatory and the Waiting Souls
03:20 The Last Instant: The Promise About Death
04:21 Faustina’s Death and the Spread of the Devotion
05:21 What Was Truly Misunderstood: The Feast Promise
06:33 The 1970s Re-examination and Różycki’s Study
07:50 The 1978 Reversal and John Paul II
09:09 What This Story Leaves Us
09:59 Closing Prayer

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SOURCES

St. Faustina Kowalska, Diary — Divine Mercy in My Soul: vision of hell (741); purgatory (20); the hour of death (1541); the Feast promise (699).
Why the devotion was banned (1958–1959) and lifted (CDF Notification, 15 April 1978): https://www.catholic.com/qa/why-did-the-church-ban-the-divine-mercy-devotion-from-1959-to-1978
Faulty translation, Cardinal Wojtyła, and the study by theologian Ignacy Różycki: https://www.thedivinemercy.org/articles/how-one-divine-mercy-critic-misses-mark
Timeline of the ban and its reversal: https://aleteia.org/2023/04/17/why-the-vatican-banned-the-divine-mercy-devotion-for-20-years/
Vision of hell (741): https://www.divinemercysunday.com/vision.htm
Purgatory passages (20): https://prayforsouls.org/library/references/diary-passages
Feast of Mercy promise (699): https://www.saint-faustina.org/feast-of-mercy/

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