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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Thursday, May 30th, 2019. This week on the Catholic Sprouts

podcast, we have been talking about war. We talked about the two types of anger, a good and holy

anger that responds to evil that can lead to a just war if necessary, and the sinful

anger that is consumed more with revenge and our own pride. We also talked about how war needs

to lead to peace and how complicated it can be to figure out if a war is necessary as a leader

in this world. Yesterday we went through the four

principles required for a war to be just according to our Catholic faith. And those are that the

damage is grave and certain, that there are no other means to end this evil, that success and peace

at the end of this all is possible, and finally,

that we will never use evil to produce, that will produce a worse evil than we are already

witnessing, that we won't engage in a horrible evil to end what is going on.

Today we are going to talk about a saint. It is St. Joan of Arc's Feast Day

today. Now, the whole reason why we are talking about war is because sometimes we can forget

that God has used war himself to bring about his will. In fact, that is the whole story of St. Joan of Arc. So, St. Joan of Arc was a

poor girl. She grew up on a farm in France. She grew up on a time when France and England were at war.

In fact, they had been at war for a long time. The war, we now call the 100-year war between France and

Britain. Now, Britain or England had been winning lately. In fact, they had been winning so much

that the English king was beginning to call himself the king of England and France. However, at the young age of 14,

St. Joan of Arc began to hear voices, and she saw St. Michael the Archangel appear to her.

They were whispering to her that she needed to go off to war. At at the age of 16, she did this. Now imagine for a minute,

way back then when St. Joan of Arc lived, how people thought about a girl, a young girl,

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