In this issue of Catholic Update, author Alfred McBride discusses Pope John Paul II's institution of Divine Mercy Sunday in the year 2000 at the Mass for the canonization of Saint Faustina Kowalska, the Apostle of Divine Mercy. He discusses instances of divinely inspired mercy, including the Pope's forgiveness of his would-be assassin, Ali Agca, and the forgiveness the Amish community of Nickel Mines, PA, extended to the widow of the man who had killed five Amish girls and himself in a local schoolhouse. The author writes, "By linking the revealed truth about God's mercy to one of the most solemn Sundays after Easter itself, [Pope John Paul II] illumined the fact that the liturgy already proclaimed the Divine Mercy.