Joan Of Arc Won't Answer My Prayers
I Miss Christendom | 11 Jan. 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ4mmFX01BM
7:56 The English may have at this point been on the verge of corrupting Catholicism.
Not doctrinally in sacramentology or so, Lollards weren't necessarily that highranking. But more in the realm of charity.
St. Joan was burned, with a local bishop as judge, according to a law from 1401, targetting primarily Lollards. The last application of it was not Mary Tudor burning Cranmer and a few more, it was James I of England burning two anabaptists in 1612.
Now, the point is, Lollards were very unpopular. And part of the popularity was an allergia they had against pageantry, but another part was their aversion against England's wars of expansion, at the cost of Scotland, Wales, Ireland ... and, obviously, France.
They had said (and it was condemned as heresy) "it is illicit for Christians to start a war except on divine revelation" (meaning post-Biblical, private revelation).
St. Joan went to war, on a private revelation, and her judge considered this claim was heretical (and basically fell under that heresy of the Lollards).
The Lollards and Deformers that were burned by Catholic rulers pretty well match up with the number of Catholic martyrs killed by Schismatic or Heretic rulers. 282 and 283, I think.
On some level, I think Lollards had a point about charity, against wars of expansion, and while burning them for heresy bore some justice in it, it wasn't all that just, not comparable to burning an Albigensian after giving him months of intellectual sparring with a Dominican who converted most. St. Joan made it so that England couldn't spread this attitude into France.
The US in part has origins from England, but also in part from the enemies of the then English kings. George Washington had, I think, both Welsh and French ancestors.
15:00 Rheims the birthplace of Christendom?
What about Pons Milvius or Milan (312, 313)?
16:45 It took c. 500 years to canonise her, in Rome, because of the consideration for English Catholics.
In Shakespear, she is described in ways harkening back to Cauchon, the bishop of Beauvais.
By 1920, it was apparent that English Catholics shared the love for her that Irish and French Catholics already held.
17:47 You are part of the English world?
No ancestry anywhere from the Lousiana Purchase?
Or from Scotland, Wales, Ireland?
Washington, English and French. Adams, English and Welsh. Jefferson, English, Scottish, Welsh. Madison, English and Welsh. Monroe, English, Scottish, Welsh. Quincy Adams, English and Welsh. Jackson, English, Scottish, Ulster Scots. van Buren, Dutch. And still no pure Englishman. Harrisson, English, Ulster Scots, Welsh. Tyler, English and French. Polk, Scottish and Ulster Scots. Second not at all English and still no pure English. Zachary Taylor, the FIRST purely English president of your country. More than seventy years after the nation was founded.
I think St. Joan may have some grudge for you not even loving your own nation, as I take you to be American.
Right of Conquest is a wrong, if there is no good case for the war of conquest. St. Augustine condemns the idea of Rome, insofar as it was a case of expansionism and seeking excuses for conquests that weren't really due. Plus, obviously it's a game two can play, as St. Joan showed. Dynastic reason, well, there was this thing called the Salian law. Perhaps a subterfuge? Perhaps true (at least shown in consistent precedent). But conquering a people for dynastic reasons hadn't turned out too well for the original people in 1066, and God wasn't having that happening to France or the French. The wellbeing of a people is above its constitution. The pragmatic case for the English kings is basically the same as for Prussia, against Austria.
Maybe a certain Blessed Andreas Faulhaber isn't your biggest subscriber either (he was killed for a confession, and he was Silesian most of his life on the Austrian side, killed on the personal orders of Frederick II because he had dared to prefer the secret of confession to the good army discipline of Prussia). Last Catholic priest martyred in Europe by non-Revolutionaries, after the English martyrs. You might want to reconsider some of your historic loyalties.
I'm obviously biassed as a Swede, we have been longstanding allies to Scotland and France. And I also visited the US before the UK, I have my English and Christianity from the US visit, when my mother took sole effective custody of me. Sue me.
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