The whole theme of the conference was to have courage, prophetic with the (referendum on the) Eighth Amendment coming up

People come for healing, peace and consolation, and community and fellowship – Don Devaney, Divine Mercy Conference.

“He gave great witness to his faith in the way in which he bore his illness with courage and dignity, and in the way he accepted his final diagnosis.”

"A society which loses a sense of God’s mercy slips into a climate of negativity and violence, of harshness and vindictiveness.”