{"id":53680,"date":"2025-06-30T15:17:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T15:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=53680"},"modified":"2026-10-26T14:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T14:25:18","slug":"jd-vance-catholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ar\/learn\/jd-vance-catholic\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0647\u0644 \u062c\u064a \u062f\u064a \u0641\u0627\u0646\u0633 \u0643\u0627\u062b\u0648\u0644\u064a\u0643\u064a\u061f"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>Yes. J.D. Vance, the vice president of the United States, became a Catholic in August 2019, when a Dominican priest baptized him in Cincinnati. He came by a long road. He grew up rarely going to church, spent part of his teens in his father&#039;s Pentecostal congregation, and called himself an atheist in college. His grandmother runs through the whole story. Mamaw loved Billy Graham, loathed &quot;organized religion,&quot; and gave him a faith with no church around it. For years\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ar\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ar\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? Sign in<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cppw-paywall__microcopy\">Enjoy unlimited access, cancel anytime.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. J.D. Vance was baptized a Catholic in Cincinnati in August 2019, after a childhood with little church, a Pentecostal phase and years as an atheist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-53680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-education"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53675,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ar\/learn\/is-donald-trump-catholic\/","url_meta":{"origin":53680,"position":0},"title":"Is Donald Trump Catholic?","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"\u064a\u0648\u0646\u064a\u0648 30, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"No. Donald Trump was raised and confirmed Presbyterian, and since 2020 he calls himself a non-denominational Christian. 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