Christianity is NOT a pacifist religion

Christians are supposed to be pacifists? Just say you know nothing about Christianity

The saints and doctors of the Church taught that war is sometimes not only permitted, but a duty

Let’s talk about Just and Holy War - a🧵✝️
Let’s begin with a myth: “Christianity means absolute pacifism. War is always evil.”

This is FALSE.

From the early Church Fathers to the great Doctors like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, the Church has always taught that some wars are just, even holy.

War is an evil, but sometimes necessary to restore just peace and avoid greater evils.

The tilma of Guadalupe still hasn’t decayed after 500 years.

Its colors can’t be reproduced.

And in her eye? A reflection of witnesses, 1/100th of a millimeter.

This is the image that shouldn’t exist , but it does - a 🧵✝️ The year was 1531. A poor indigenous man named Juan Diego sees a woman “brighter than the sun” on a hill near Mexico City.

She speaks to him in his native tongue.
She says: "Am I not your mother?"

What happened next changed the Americas forever.

You’ve probably prayed novenas before.
But have you ever heard of a 12-year novena that if prayed daily Jesus will defend you at judgment?

Plus no purgatory, protection for 4 generations, and even foreknowledge of death?

The 12-Year Prayer of St. Bridget of Sweden – a 🧵
From Eden to Calvary, salvation has always been written in Blood.

When Adam and Eve fell, God clothed them with garments of animal skin, the first blood sacrifice to cover sin. (Gen 3:21)
But these sacrifices only pointed forward.

He played video games, loved coding and dressed like any other teenager.

But his heart burned with love for the Eucharist.
And today he was Canonized a Saint by Pope Leo XIV

This is the story of Blessed Carlo Acutis, the Cyber Apostle – a 🧵✝️
Carlo was born in 1991, in London to Andrea Acutis and Antonia Salzano.

His family later moved to Milan, Italy, where Carlo developed his love for video games, coding and photography alongside his deepening faith

A teenager like any other, except for one thing:
his heart burned with love for Christ.

His love for Christ inspired his parents with his mother saying: “Before Carlo’s birth, I was really caught up in the culture of our time,” “I was a prisoner of everything that is relative and limited.” “Carlo showed me how to live in my century while turning toward eternity.”

Blessed Carlos Acutis is getting canonized tomorrow by Pope Leo XIV

Here are some of his best quotes to help you in your spiritual life

1) "All people are born as originals, but many die as photocopies." 2) "Why do we care so much about the beauty of the body and don't worry about the beauty of the soul? A life is only truly beautiful if we come to love God above all else and our neighbor as ourselves."

Jesus Christ is God.
He is the Messiah foretold in the Old Testament.

Don't believe me?
Here are 10 Old Testament prophecies fulfilled by Jesus Christ that prove He is the Lord - a 🧵✝️
1) Born of a Virgin

Prophecy: Isaiah 7,14 “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son…”

Fulfilled in: Matthew 1,22–23
Mary conceives by the Holy Spirit. Christ enters the world by divine miracle.

“Turning the other cheek” is one of Christ’s most misunderstood teachings.

Many think it means Christians should be passive, weak, or defenseless.

But in reality, it’s something far more profound. It reveals true strength.

Turning the Other Cheek means – a 🧵✝️
Jesus says: “If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.” (Mt 5,39)

At first glance, it sounds like He’s telling us to never defend ourselves.

But that’s not what’s happening here.

Did you know there was one Marian apparition in China?

In 1900, during a fanatical uprising, thousands of Chinese Catholics were besieged inside a Church.

They endured famine & death for two months.
But they weren’t alone our Lady came to the rescue.

The Siege of Beitang -🧵
By 1900, the Catholic Church in China was growing fast:
>40 bishops
>800 European missionaries
>600 native Chinese priests
>700,000+ Chinese Catholics

But that same year, a wave of diabolical hatred began to rise

He climbed mountains, pulled pranks, and lived like any other young man. But his soul burned with love for Christ and the poor.

Saint John Paul II called him "The man of the Beatitudes"
This Sunday, he will be canonized a Saint.

The life of Pier Giorgio Frassati - a 🧵✝️
Pier Giorgio Michelangelo Frassati was born in Turin on April 6, 1901.

His father Alfredo founded the newspaper La Stampa and was Italy’s ambassador to Germany.
His mother, Adelaide, was a painter.

The family was influential, cultured, and largely secular.

Carlo Acutis will be canonized a by Pope Leo this Sunday.

He loved Pokémon, video games, Nutella, but above all Jesus. He shows us that sanctity is not out of reach for our age.

How to become a Saint like Carlos Acutis with examples from his life - a 🧵

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1) Make daily Holy Mass a priority

Carlo made the Eucharist the center of his life.
He went to Mass every day and said: “You go straight to Heaven if you participate in the Mass daily.”

For him, holiness was simple: the more you receive Jesus, the more you become like Him.

Our society is sick and full of sin.

But there are certain sins so grave that they don’t just offend God, they cry out to Him for vengeance.

Scripture names four of them, and they are commited daily.

The 4 Sins that Cry Out to Heaven for Vengeance - a 🧵✝️
1) Murder

The blood of the innocent does not remain silent.

When Cain slew Abel, God said: “The voice of your brother’s blood cries to Me from the ground.” (Gen 4,10)

Every act of murder, from the first fratricide to the sin of abortion, calls to Heaven for vengeance.

She never performed a public miracle.
She never left her convent.
She died at 24, unknown to the world.

But today, she’s a Doctor of the Church,
and one of the most powerful saints in Heaven.

This is the story of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the saint of the little way - a 🧵✝️
Thérèse Martin was born in 1873 to devout French parents (both canonized saints).

Sensitive, passionate, and deeply spiritual, she desired only one thing from childhood: to love Jesus with all her heart.

And she meant it.

Heaven exists.
Hell exists.

But in between them there is Purgatory, a place of purification, redemptive suffering and hope.

And the souls in there NEED our help.

What the Church teaches about Purgatory and how YOU can help free the souls who are in it - a 🧵✝️
What is Purgatory?

According to the Church, it is the final purification of the elect, a necessary cleansing for those who die in God’s grace but are still imperfectly purified.

Nothing unclean can enter Heaven. (Revelation 21,27)
So God's mercy provides a way for souls to be purified, not damned, but not yet ready.

She could see her Guardian Angel
She bore the wounds of Christ.
And every night, she was attacked by demons who threw her from her bed.

Her diary is so powerful the devil tried to burn it.

This is the story of St. Gemma Galgani, the mystic warrior who fought Hell itself - a 🧵
Born in 1878 in Italy, Gemma was the 4th of eight children.

But from childhood, she burned with love for Christ.
She longed to suffer for souls, and Heaven answered that prayer.

More than she expected.

She was called the Saint of the Impossible.

A wife who endured abuse, a mother who lost her sons, a widow who embraced the Cross.

She bore the wound of Christ’s crown of thorns.
And a rose bloomed for her in the snows of winter.

This is the life of Saint Rita of Cascia – a 🧵
Saint Rita of Cascia (1381–1457) is one of the most beloved saints in Catholic history.

Known as the Patroness of the Impossible, her life teaches us how God can turn unbearable suffering into a path of sanctity.

Christianity is not against Science.
Science was born in the cradle of Christendom.

Some of the greatest scientific minds in history were devout Christians who saw no contradiction between reason and revelation.

Here are 8 brilliant scientists who believed in God - a🧵
1. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543)

A canon of the Catholic Church and a true Renaissance polymath, Copernicus revolutionized astronomy with his heliocentric model, placing the Sun at the center of the cosmos.

Far from being a rebel against the Church, he remained a loyal son of it. His magnum opus De revolutionibus orbium coelestium was dedicated to Pope Paul III.

Earlier, Pope Clement VII had received Copernicus' ideas with interest and no condemnation.

Copernicus believed his discoveries revealed the divine harmony of creation.

St. Anthony is known for finding lost things, especially your keys.

But in life, his miracles were far greater than finding missing objects. For this he was canonized in record time.

Here are his miracles and their incredible story - a 🧵✝️ 1) The Eucharistic miracle of the mule

A heretic challenged the Real Presence in the Eucharist.

Saint Anthony accepted his challenge. A starving mule was placed before two options: a pile of food or the Holy Host.

The beast ignored its food, knelt before the Blessed Sacrament.

The heretic converted on the spot.

Today, we make the Sign of the Cross without thinking.
Forehead. Chest. Shoulder to shoulder.

“In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.”

But this gesture is almost 2,000 years old, and it’s far more than a habit.

It’s a declaration of war - a 🧵✝️ The earliest written mention comes from Church Father Tertullian, writing around AD 200.

“In all our travels and movements, in all our coming in and going out (...) we mark our foreheads with the sign of the cross.”- De Corona, Ch. 3

By then, it was already a universal Christian act.

Did you know Pope Saint John Paul II performed three exorcisms inside the Vatican?

A Pope wielding the Cross in direct combat against Hell. The Devil even confessed he feared him.

This is the story of the Pope who faced the demonic head-on - a🧵✝️ It is a core tenet of the Catholic faith that demons are real, and as said in the St. Michael prayer, that they "prowl about the earth seeking the ruin of souls."

Many people think the devil is an invention of marketing but he is very, very real.

They mocked him.
They investigated him.
They tried to silence him.

But he bore the wounds of Christ, could read souls, talk to angels & be in two places at once!

This is the story Saint Padre Pio, the saint who confused modern science - a 🧵✝️
Born Francesco Forgione in 1887 in southern Italy, he became a Capuchin friar and priest, later known to the world as Padre Pio of Pietrelcina.

From early childhood, he saw angels, demons, and Jesus Christ Himself.

He once said:
“If you only knew how many devils I see at my side…”

For three years, terror stalked rural France.
Over 200 attacked. More than 100 dead.

Neither soldiers, hunters, nor royal rewards could stop it.

Until a Catholic hero with a blessed bullet brought the nightmare to an end.

The Beast of Gévaudan - a 🧵🇫🇷✝️
Summer 1764. In the mountains of Gévaudan, southern France, strange things begin.

Livestock vanishes.
Then on June 30, a 14-year-old shepherdess named Jeanne Boulet is torn apart.

The villagers whisper:
“A beast roams among us.”