Is J.D. Vance Catholic?



  • J.D. Vance is Catholic. A Dominican priest baptized him at St. Gertrude Priory in Cincinnati in August 2019, and he received his first Communion the same day.
  • He was not baptized as a child; his grandmother believed in Jesus but distrusted organized religion.
  • As a teenager he joined his father’s Pentecostal church, and by 2007 he called himself an atheist.
  • In a 2020 essay for The Lamp he said he came to see Catholicism as the closest expression of his grandmother’s kind of Christianity.
  • He chose Augustine as his confirmation saint. His wife, Usha Vance, is Hindu and supported his conversion.
  • He met Pope Francis on Easter Sunday 2025, the day before the pope died, and Pope Leo XIV on May 19, 2025.

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 had grown up rarely going to church, spent part of his teens in his father’s Pentecostal congregation, and called himself an atheist in college. How was J.D. Vance raised? Vance was raised largely by his grandmother, whom he called Mamaw, and was not baptized as a child. In “How I Joined the Resistance,” an essay…

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