"Joan fought and died to preserve the identity and particularity of a sovereign place; she dedicated herself to the unique and irreplaceable soul of a country. She did not believe that it was right for her country to be--as it had already become in part and was dangerously close to becoming --a fiefdom of the kingdom of England."
Donald Spoto, Joan: The Mysterious Life of the Heretic Who Became a Saint (HarperCollins, 2008), p. xv.
One could change the words slightly in the preceding passage and describe the struggle for the soul of contemporary America against predatory capitalism, open borders, cheap immigrant stoop labor and being made a fiefdom of Red China and Israeli Zionism and Judaism.
Today Joan would be labeled neither a saint nor a heretic, but a "militant extremist" and "racist terrorist." She was none of those, of course, but the capitalists and the cheap labor lobby, through their media, demonize any true patriot. Joan's patriotism was heaven-sent.
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The following quote is one of the most beloved and inspiring (if not downright fearful!) I have ever come across. It is taken from a Discourse pronounced by Pope St. Pius X on December 13, 1908 in a ceremony connected with the Beatification of Joan of Arc.
"In our time more than ever before, the chief strength of the wicked lies in the cowardice and weakness of good men... All the strength of Satan's reign is due to the easy-going weakness of Catholics. Oh! if I might ask the Divine Redeemer, as the prophet Zachary did in spirit: What are those wounds in the midst of Thy hands? The answer would not be doubtful: With these was I wounded in the house of them that loved Me. I was wounded by My friends, who did nothing to defend Me, and who, on every occasion, made themselves the accomplices of My adversaries. And this reproach can be levelled at the weak and timid Catholics of all countries."
JBP
"Foe only to the great blood guilty ones, The Masters and Murderers of Mankind." is what the 18th Century Poet Robert Southey once said of Joan so if she were alive today I am sure she would be fighting for freedom against the "great blood guilty ones, The Masters and Murderers of Mankind" that are so abudant in today's world. I am also sure that she would be branded by such people as a "traitor" or a "rebel" or in today's jagon a "terrorist" but then freedom fighters have always been labled in such a way by the tyrants they fight.
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