Scott Alexander (author/host)

Asked whether after this revelation she believed that she should not commit mortal sin, she answered, I do not know, but in everything I commit myself to God."

And when she was told that this was an answer of great weight, she answered that she held it for a great treasure.

End quote.

The belief that she's immune to sin is heresy.

The belief that she can go to heaven in a state of mortal sin is heresy.

The belief that she'll eventually go to heaven can't be heresy because Jesus told specific people they would go to heaven.

Quote, Asked if God ordered her to wear a man's dress, she answered that the dress is small, nay, the least thing.

nor did she put on man's dress by the advice of any man whatsoever.

She did not put it on, nor did she do aught, but by the command of God and the angels.

Asked whether it seemed to her that this command to assume male attire was lawful, she answered, Everything I have done is at God's command, and if he had ordered me to assume a different habit, I should have done it, since it would have been at his command.

Asked if she thought she had done well to take man's dress, she answered that everything she did at God's command she thought well done, and hoped for good warrant and succor in it.

Asked if, in this particular case, by taking man's dress she thought she had done well, she answered that she had done nothing in the world but by God's commands."

She is simultaneously utterly direct, so exceedingly Christian that on no point of doctrine can they call her out, and qualified to perfectly sidestep every question they ask her.

It must have been infuriating.

Quote, She seemed to me to be subtle with an altogether feminine subtlety, end quote, said the judge Jean Boupert.

She started everything off quibbling about the oath they wanted her to swear.

She'd previously sworn to keep King Charles' secrets, so she needed to clarify that she would only swear limited oaths to tell the truth about things that touch on the trial and don't touch on the king.

And then when the bishop judging her asked her to say the Our Father, she said she would, if he'd hear her in confession.

He obviously couldn't prosecute her if he was her confessor.

That would violate the seal of the confessional.