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To: thinktwice
What you write is not factual. The Catholic Church did not condemn St. Joan anymore than Presbyterianism burned Michael Servetus. Individual clergy condemned St. Joan -- clergy who put feudal loyalites above justice. The review of the case was hardly favorable to Charles VII, the French king.

Her "conviction" was overturned because of the various outrages of this "trial" -- e.g., refusal to grant the accused an advocate, the behavior of the judges (who deliberately tried to trick the accused), the housing conditions of the accused, and refusing the accused her appeal to Rome.

112 posted on 10/07/2001 7:07:18 PM PDT by Squire
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To: Squire
clergy who put feudal loyalites above justice

An interesting choice of words; irony in action.

130 posted on 10/07/2001 7:31:01 PM PDT by thinktwice
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