I’m a Twelver Shia Muslim

So I want wanted since a long time to discuss my religion with a Catholic because some people call us, the Catholic Version of Islam. For those who don’t know, Twelver Shia Islam, believes in Unitarianism, Prophet Muhammad as the final prophet, and the Quran as God’s word, yet we have another version of Muhammad, another interpretation of the Quran than mainstream Islam, and we believe ourselves to be the True Islam because we took our religion from the Household of the Prophet Muhammad, unlike Sunnis (the rest of Muslims who make up 85% of Muslims) who are like Protestants believe in scripture and it’s open for interpretation.

Note: our 12 Imams are all from one continuous linage starting with the first Imam, Imam Ali who’s the cousin and son in law of Muhammad 2nd Imam (elder son of Ali), Imam Hasan the Chosen 3rd Imam (second son of Ali), Imam Hussain the Martyred 4th Imam (son of Hussain), Imam Sajad the Best of Believers 5th Imam (son of Sajad), Imam Baqir the Knowledgable 6th Imam (son of Baqir), Imam Jafar the Truthful 7th Imam (son of Jafar), Imam Kazim the Patient 8th Imam (son of Kazim), Imam Reza the Imam who God is pleased with 9th Imam (son of Riza), Imam Jawad the Generous 10th Imam (son of Jawad), Imam Hadi the Pure 11th Imam (son of Hadi), Imam Askari the imprisoned in Askar 12th Imam (son of Askari), Imam Mahdi the Guider to Truth

Well, our belief includes. 1- that Jesus is the awaited promised Messiah, and he was truly the Christ, and He was truly born to the Chosen Lady the Virgin Mary, who God’s named her in the Quran as the Chosen and Purified, hence we believe her to be Sinless since birth to death and we already don’t believe in the birth guilt, hence we believe in her immaculate conception, and she was pregnant of God’s soul in her womb, and Jesus Christ is God’s word and soul, yet he’s not God himself. 2- We believe that this verse in the book of Genesis in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible was referring to our 12 Leaders (Imams, btw Imam means in Arabic “the person who leads the prayer, and well informed about religion”) The Verse quotes “And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. Twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.” We believe that since God said here he will bless him and give Ishmael 12 blessed Prince, and it happens that our Twelve Leaders (Imams), and not as some interpret it to be his direct sons who mostly turned out non-believers. 3- We believe in the Successorship of Jesus Christ was given to Saint Peter, same way the Religious Successorship of Islam was granted to Imam Ali after the Prophet death, and same way the Roman Catholic Church was founded upon the grave where Saint Peter died, our main religious institution was built exactly where Imam Ali died in Najaf, although it was moved several times because Islamic Kingdom kept constantly persecuting us, however the line of our Popes (we call them “Marja’ which mean “Person who you refer to”” was always intact. 4- We believe that Jesus Christ will return at the End of Time with our Twelfth Imam, and he will reveal the truth for all Christians, and he will show us all his own Gospel, authored by Jesus Christ himself, and we will unite with the Christians at the end of time. 5- We believe that our Eleventh Imam, Imam Hasan Al-Askari married a Byzantine princess and this princess is blood related to Saint Peter, the mother of our 12th Imam, Imam Mohammed Al-Mahdi, so our 12th Imam is bloodily related to Saint Peter, so our 12th Imam Paternal half is from Imam Ali, the successor of Muhammad, and Maternal half is from Saint Peter, successor of Jesus Christ. Sorry for the long post, but I had to be thoroughly, and still I haven’t covered enough of the matter, sorry but it already became so long Thank you for reading