1 day ago · Less than a week after Vice President JD Vance shared the inauguration stage with a senior Catholic cardinal, Vance picked a fight with the top American leaders of his church. The new vice president, a Catholic convert, accused the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops of resettling “illegal immigrants” in order to get federal funding. New ...

3 days ago · Vance was responding to statements by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops condemning as “deeply troubling” the administration’s enforcement actions against illegal aliens and its pause of government-funded refugee-resettlement programs. As a Catholic, Vance said, the criticism left him “heartbroken.” Then he hit out at the church ...

Jul 21, 2024 · Vance didn’t like the Catholic Church when he was a kid. Even before he started going to a Pentecostal church, Vance thought he knew certain things about Catholicism — which he didn’t like. “I...

Jan 31, 2025 · Some Catholic stakeholders in Washington and beyond worry that by suggesting the church is benefitting financially from the resettlement program, Vance opens a door for bigots. Anti-Catholic nativists in the 19 th and early 20 th century often cast the church as greedy, seeking public funding for their parochial schools or as payouts to ...

Jan 30, 2025 · JD Vance, vice President James David Vance, better known as JD Vance. I know again, there’s plenty of things you can say about him in the political arena, positively or negatively, including from a Catholic perspective.

Aug 25, 2024 · From his new home in Cincinnati, JD Vance would go to St. Gertrude to meet the friar. It was a fitting place for the millennial aspiring politician, who was drawn to the Roman Catholic...

Aug 24, 2024 · Becoming Catholic for Vance, who was loosely raised as an evangelical, was a practical way to counter what he saw as elite values, especially secularism. He was drawn not just to the church’s...

From his new home in Cincinnati, JD Vance would go to St. Gertrude to meet the friar. It was a fitting place for the millennial aspiring politician, who was drawn to the Catholic Church's...

Sep 4, 2024 · Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s 2019 conversion to Catholicism helped shape his political worldview. It also put him in close touch with a Catholic intellectual movement known as postliberalism.

Aug 8, 2024 · In 2021, when J.D. Vance was asked at a conference why he had converted to Catholicism just two years earlier, he had a fairly simple answer. “I really liked that the Catholic Church was...