The ordinary, or guilt-determining, phase of the witchcraft and heresy trial of Joan of Arc opened today. Under vigorous examination by head judge Bishop Pierre Cauchon, Joan made her first self-incriminating statements. Cauchon asked, "If the Church tells you that your revelations are illusions or somehow diabolic, would you defer to the Church?"

Joan replied, "So long as the Church does not command something impossible to do - and what I call impossible is that I revoke the deeds I have done and the words I have said in this trial concerning the visions and revelations that were given to me from God. What Our Lord has made me do and has commanded and may yet command, I shall not fail to do for the sake of any man alive, and should the Church wish that I do something against the commandment that was given me by God, I would not do it for anything."