There is Nothing Contrary to the Faith in the Divine Mercy chaplet.
That does not mean it is not problematic.
The chaplet over-emphasizes the Divine Mercy at the expense of the Divine Justice. The chaplet itself was plagiarized from the chaplet of the Holy Wounds, which is much older and is much better in terms of recognizing God’s justice. Too often, the DM chaplet is used instead of the Rosary.
The diaries were condemned several times by the pre-Vatican-II church. They were only rehabilitated by a modernist Polish pope (John Paul II) because the bad theology of the devotion fits with his modernist theology of universal salvation and because he wanted a Polish saint.
When the devotion was originally condemned, it was expressly stated that there must never be a feast day put on the calendar for the devotion. John Paul violated this, and put a feast day on a day that the Church has always forbidden that any other feast should be celebrated. Furthermore, the DM novena is started on, of all things, Good Friday, and then detracts from the highest holy season of the Church’s year, that of Easter and its octave.
The image was thoroughly condemned by the Holy Office on multiple occasions. It is to be criticised because it is often used in lieu of images of the Sacred Heart (among many other valid criticisms).
Helena Kowalska (Sister Faustina) was canonised using the new process, which casts doubt on the canonisation.
The diaries contain absurdities and heresies. The church condemned them with good reason.
Officially, the SSPX condemns the diaries and the image and merely tolerates the chaplet.
If you have a devotion to the DM, consider instead:the
1) Praying the Holy Wounds chaplet 2) Praying the Rosary 3) Replacing the image with an image of the Sacred Heart
… and relegating the entire DM devotion to the dustbin. It is modernist through and through and should be avoided.
Power of God 
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