EVERY REASON TO BELIEVE

• Jesus
  • The many proofs of Christ’s resurrection
  • Saint Thomas Aquinas: God gave all the divine proofs we needed to believe
  • The surpassing power of Christ's word
  • Lewis’s trilemma: a proof of Jesus’s divinity
  • Jesus spoke and acted as God's equal
• Mary
  • The Virgin Mary has appeared or intervened more than 2000 times throughout History!
  • The prophecies about "she who is to give birth" (Mi 5:2)
• The Church
  • The stability and permanence of the Catholic Church and magisterium
  • The concept of Revelation presupposes the concept of Magisterium
• The Bible
  • Onomastics support the historical reliability of the Gospels
  • The New Testament was not altered
  • The New Testament is the best-attested manuscript of Antiquity
  • The Gospels were written too early after the facts to be legends
  • Archaeological finds confirm the reliability of the New Testament
  • The unique prophecies that announced the Messiah
  • The time of the coming of the Messiah was accurately prophesied
• The Apostles
  • Saint Peter, prince of the apostles
  • James the Just, “brother” of the Lord, apostle and martyr (d. 62 AD)
• The martyrs
  • Saint Blandina and the Martyrs of Lyon: the fortitude of faith (177 AD)
  • Thomas More: “The king’s good servant, but God’s first”
• The monks
• The saints
  • Saint Anthony of Padua: "everyone’s saint"
  • Saint Simon Stock receives the scapular of Mount Carmel from the hands of the Virgin Mary
  • The unusual boat of Saint Basil of Ryazan
  • The extraordinary conversion of Michelina of Pesaro
  • Saint Rita of Cascia: hoping against all hope
• Doctors
• The mystics
  • Saint Margaret Mary sees the "Heart that so loved mankind"
  • Lutgardis of Tongeren and the devotion to the Sacred Heart
  • Saint John of the Cross: mystic, reformer, poet, and universal psychologist (+1591)
• Visionaries
  • María de Jesús de Ágreda, abbess and friend of the King of Spain
  • The 700 extraordinary visions of the Gospel received by Maria Valtorta (d. 1961)
• The popes
  • Pope Saint Celestine V: at 84, nothing predestined him to become Pope
  • Saint John XXIII: Obedience as the path to peace
• The great witnesses of the faith
• Christian civilisation
• The depth of Christian spirituality
  • The "New Pentecost": modern day, spectacular outpouring of the Holy Spirit
• Christ's interventions in history
• Marian apparitions and interventions
  • The Life-giving Font of Constantinople
  • The Virgin Mary delivers besieged Christians in Cusco, Peru
  • Saint Joseph’s apparitions in Cotignac, France (1660)
  • Gietrzwald apparitions: heavenly help to a persecuted minority
  • Zeitoun apparitions
  • Luz Amparo and the El Escorial apparitions
  • The extraordinary apparitions of Medjugorje and their worldwide impact
  • The Virgin Mary heals a teenager, then appears to him dozens of times (1986)
• Angels and their manifestations
• Exorcisms in the name of Christ
• A wave of charity unique in the world
• Amazing miracles
• Miraculous cures
  • The miraculous cure of Blessed Maria Giuseppina Catanea
• Preserved bodies of the saints
• Bilocations
• Inedias
• Levitations
  • Saint Philip Neri: a heart dilated by the fire of the Holy Spirit
• Lacrimations and miraculous images
• Stigmates
  • Elena Aiello: "a Eucharistic soul"
• Eucharistic miracles
  • A host came to her: 11-year-old Imelda received Communion and died in ecstasy (1333)
  • Faverney's hosts miraculously saved from fire
• Relics
• Jews discover the Messiah
  • Edith Stein - Saint Benedicta of the Cross: "A daughter of Israel who, during the Nazi persecutions, remained united with faith and love to the Crucified Lord, Jesus Christ, as a Catholic, and to her people as a Jew"
• Muslim conversions
• Buddhist conversions
• Atheist conversions
• Testimonies of encounters with Christ
  • Near-death experiences (NDEs) confirm Catholic doctrine on the Four Last Things
  • Gabrielle Bossis: He and I
  • André Levet's conversion in prison
• Providential stories
  • The superhuman intuition of Saint Pachomius the Great
  • Joan of Arc: "the most beautiful story in the world"
  • In 1947, a rosary crusade liberated Austria from the Soviets (1946-1955)
  • A protective hand saved John Paul II and led to happy consequences (1981)