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\n Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, arrives to the Faith and Freedom Coalition\u2019s \u201cGod and Country Breakfast\u201d at the Pfister Hotel on July 18, 2024 in Milwaukee. \/ Credit: Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

National Catholic Register, Jul 21, 2024 \/ 07:00 am (CNA).<\/p>\n

Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance is one of the most overtly religious major politicians in America.<\/p>\n

Vance has written extensively about his life in faith, both in a mega-selling memoir and in a long essay that describes how a drug-using teenager with anger problems, family problems, school problems, and doubts about God became an accomplished, successful family man excited about being a Catholic.<\/p>\n

But nowadays, he\u2019s also the most questioned of religious politicians, as pro-lifers ask if he\u2019s still one of them.<\/p>\n

Where did he come from in faith? And how did he get where he is now?<\/p>\n

Vance, who comes from a long line of culturally Protestant Scots-Irish Americans from Appalachia, was baptized Catholic in August 2019. His decision marked a significant turn in his spiritual journey, as he sought a deeper understanding of faith beyond his family\u2019s traditions. Vance often reflects on the contrasts between his upbringing and his newfound beliefs, noting that the blending of presbyterian and catholic beliefs explained<\/a> his evolving perspective on community and worship. This journey has not only reshaped his religious identity but also sparked meaningful discussions with family and friends.<\/p>\n

Below are 13 items about his meandering journey to Rome and the aftermath, drawn largely from his 3-million-copy-selling 2016 memoir \u201cHillbilly Elegy\u201d and a 6,777-word essay<\/a> he wrote about his conversion for the Easter 2020 issue of The Lamp, a Catholic magazine. <\/p>\n

Vance also talked about his conversion in an August 2019 interview<\/a> with Rod Dreher published in The American Conservative.<\/p>\n

1. J.D. Vance rarely went to church as a child.<\/h2>\n

Vance was largely raised by his grandmother, whom he called \u201cMamaw,\u201d who believed in Jesus and liked Billy Graham but didn\u2019t like what she called \u201corganized religion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vance wasn\u2019t baptized as a child. The family members he spent the most time around generally didn\u2019t go to church unless they were visiting their Appalachian ancestral home in Jackson, Kentucky.<\/p>\n

Even so, he says in his memoir, his grandmother had \u201ca deeply personal (albeit quirky) faith.\u201d<\/p>\n

2. Vance had a crisis of faith as a child.<\/h2>\n

When he was about 10, Vance had a moment of doubt.<\/p>\n

\u201cMamaw, does God love us?\u201d he asked his grandmother after a major disappointment, mindful of the fractured family life he and his half-sister were growing up in.<\/p>\n

The question caused his grandmother to cry.<\/p>\n

Vance doesn\u2019t say how his grandmother answered the question. But he describes another instance when Mamaw accidentally went the wrong way on a three-lane interstate before making a U-turn, causing him to scream in terror.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t you know Jesus rides in the car with me?\u201d his grandmother replied.<\/p>\n

3. As a teenager, Vance was a Pentecostal.<\/h2>\n

As an adolescent, Vance reconnected with his biological father, whom he hadn\u2019t seen much of after his parents split up. For a while, he stayed with his dad every other weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith little religious training, I was desperate for some exposure to a real church,\u201d Vance wrote in \u201cHillbilly Elegy.\u201d<\/p>\n

His father had given up drinking and became a serious Pentecostal, and he would take Vance to a large Pentecostal church in southeastern Ohio with his new wife and their children.<\/p>\n

Vance drank it in. Among other things, he rejected evolution and embraced millennialism, including a belief that the world would end in 2007.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure if I liked the structure or if I just wanted to share in something that was important to him \u2014 both, I suppose \u2014 but I became a devoted convert,\u201d Vance writes in his memoir.<\/p>\n

4. Vance didn\u2019t like the Catholic Church when he was a kid.<\/h2>\n

Even before he started going to a Pentecostal church, Vance thought he knew certain things about Catholicism \u2014 which he didn\u2019t like.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew that Catholics worshipped Mary. I knew they rejected the legitimacy of Scripture. And I knew that the Antichrist \u2014 or at least, the Antichrist\u2019s spiritual adviser \u2014 would be a Catholic,\u201d Vance wrote in his April 2020 article<\/a> in The Lamp <\/em>of his once-misguided impressions.<\/p>\n

5. Vance\u2019s image of Jesus when he was growing up differed from his image of the Catholic Church\u2019s image of Jesus.<\/h2>\n

One of Vance\u2019s aunts married a Catholic, whom Vance liked and respected.<\/p>\n

\u201cI admired my uncle Dan above all other men \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6,\u201d Vance wrote in \u201cHillbilly Elegy.\u201d<\/p>\n

His grandmother liked Dan, too.<\/p>\n

But Catholicism seemed too formal and impersonal to her.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Catholic Jesus was a majestic deity, and we had little interest in majestic deities because we weren\u2019t a majestic people,\u201d Vance wrote in his conversion essay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

6. \u201cHillbilly Elegy\u201d isn\u2019t a conversion story.<\/h2>\n

Vance mentions the word \u201cCatholic\u201d or \u201cCatholics\u201d only five times in the 264-page book, and he never engages with Catholic teachings in it. He wrote it between 2013 and 2015, several years before he became a Catholic, and gives no hint that he had ever considered Catholicism. This lack of engagement with Catholic doctrines may lead readers to question how his views evolved over time. Additionally, without a thorough examination of Catholicism\u2019s main branches explained<\/a>, Vance\u2019s transition to the faith remains somewhat enigmatic. His limited references suggest he may have approached the subject with little familiarity prior to his conversion. This raises the question of how well he understood the Catholic Church beliefs and practices<\/a> before making his decision to convert. A deeper exploration of these beliefs could provide valuable insights into the motivations behind his spiritual journey. As it stands, the sparse mentions in his book leave readers wanting a more comprehensive understanding of his connection to Catholicism.<\/p>\n

He also doesn\u2019t dwell in his book on his atheism as a young man, a period he describes at length in his conversion essay in The Lamp.<\/p>\n

7. An Anglican philosopher provided the first crack in Vance\u2019s atheism.<\/h2>\n

While he was still a nonbeliever, Vance encountered the work of English philosopher Basil Mitchell (1917\u20132011) in an undergraduate philosophy course at Ohio State.<\/p>\n

As Vance describes it, Mitchell, who was a member of the Church of England, presented difficult experiences in life as a trial of faith that requires trust in God without fully understanding what God has in mind.<\/p>\n

Vance was surprised by Mitchell\u2019s presentation because as a young Christian he had always thought that \u201c[d]oubt was unacceptable\u201d and \u201cthat the proper response to a trial of faith was to suppress it and pretend it never happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut here was Mitchell,\u201d Vance wrote in his conversion essay<\/a>, \u201cconceding that the brokenness of the world and our individual tribulations did, in fact, count against the existence of God. But not definitively.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance and former president Donald Trump bow in prayer during the last day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on July 18, 2024. Credit: KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI\/AFP via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

8. A homosexual billionaire influenced Vance\u2019s outlook on life.<\/h2>\n

While a student at Yale Law School, Vance went to a talk by venture capitalist Peter Thiel, who was Facebook\u2019s first outside investor and co-founded PayPal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to Vance, Thiel argued that elite professionals got themselves trapped into climbing rungs on the socioeconomic ladder at the expense of happiness.<\/p>\n

Vance realized that he was \u201cobsessed with achievement\u201d for itself \u2014 \u201cnot as an end to something meaningful, but to win a social competition.\u201d He also concluded that he \u201chad prioritized striving over character.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thiel introduced Vance to the thought of Ren\u00c3\u00a9 Girard (1923-2015), a French historian and philosopher whose writings, among other things, attracted Vance through the way he described Christianity as transcending the scapegoat myth of various cultures because Christ \u201chas not wronged the civilization; the civilization has wronged him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thiel, now 56, who identifies as a Christian and a conservative, is civilly married to a man<\/a>. Vance worked for Thiel in venture capital, and Thiel was Vance\u2019s major contributor<\/a> in Vance\u2019s successful run for U.S. Senate in Ohio in 2022.<\/p>\n

9. Vance\u2019s family ties kept him from becoming a Catholic for a long time.<\/h2>\n

Vance connected with Catholic doctrine several years after his grandmother died in 2005. It made sense to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cYet I couldn\u2019t shake the feeling that if I converted I would no longer be my grandmother\u2019s grandson,\u201d Vance wrote in The Lamp.<\/p>\n

That left him in a sort of limbo.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo for many years I occupied the uncomfortable territory between curiosity about Catholicism and mistrust,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0Vance credits his Hindu wife with helping him convert to Catholicism.<\/h2>\n

Vance acknowledges having problems with anger stemming from his chaotic childhood and the destructive behavior of people in his family, especially his mother, who abused prescription drugs and went through a string of boyfriends and husbands.<\/p>\n

That anger affected his relationship with Usha, his girlfriend in law school, but she helped him work through it to try to become the kind of husband and father he wanted to be. They married in 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sad fact is that I couldn\u2019t do it without Usha. Even at my best, I\u2019m a delayed explosion \u2014 I can be defused, but only with skill and precision,\u201d Vance wrote in \u201cHillbilly Elegy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Usha is the daughter of immigrants from India and a Hindu. Vance felt hesitant about joining the Catholic Church because he wasn\u2019t a Catholic when they got married.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut from the beginning, she supported my decision, so I can\u2019t blame the delay on her,\u201d Vance wrote in his conversion essay.<\/p>\n

Vance has said the Church\u2019s clergy sex-abuse scandal delayed his conversion by a few months.<\/p>\n

11. Dominican priests helped draw Vance to Catholicism.<\/h2>\n

What Vance calls \u201ca few informal conversations with a couple of Dominican friars\u201d led to a period of serious study of Catholicism.<\/p>\n

The process was gradual, with no a-ha moments.<\/p>\n

But it included what he calls \u201csome weird coincidences.\u201d<\/p>\n

During a late-night conversation at a hotel bar with an unnamed conservative Catholic writer, Vance says, he challenged the man for criticizing Pope Francis.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile he admitted that some Catholics went too far, he defended his more measured approach,\u201d Vance wrote in his conversion essay, \u201cwhen suddenly a wine glass seemed to leap from a stable place behind the bar and crashed on the floor in front of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

That ended the conversation.<\/p>\n

Another: While on a train from New York to Washington, D.C., Vance listened to a recording of an Orthodox choir singing a Psalm during Pope Francis\u2019 visit to the country of Georgia in 2016.<\/p>\n

When he got to Washington, he asked a Dominican friar to coffee.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe invited me to visit his community, where I heard the friars chanting, apparently, the same psalm,\u201d Vance wrote.<\/p>\n

Vance was baptized in August 2019 by a Dominican priest, Father Henry Stephan, at St. Gertrude Priory, which is attached to a Dominican parish in Cincinnati, where Vance now lives.<\/p>\n

Despite his Dominican connections, his confirmation saint is Augustinus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was pretty moved by the \u2018Confessions<\/a>,\u2019\u201d <\/em>he told Rod Dreher. \u201cI\u2019ve probably read it in bits and pieces twice over the past 15 or so years. There\u2019s a chapter from \u2018The City of God\u2019 <\/a>that\u2019s incredibly relevant now that I\u2019m thinking about policy. There\u2019s just a way that Augustine is an incredibly powerful advocate for the things that the Church believes. And one of the subtexts about my return to Christianity is that I had come from a world that wasn\u2019t super-intellectual about the Christian faith. I spend a lot of my time these days among a lot of intellectual people who aren\u2019t Christian. Augustine gave me a way to understand Christian faith in a strongly intellectual way. I also went through an angry atheist phase. As someone who spent a lot of his life buying into the lie that you had to be stupid to be a Christian, Augustine really demonstrated in a moving way that that\u2019s not true.\u201d<\/p>\n

12. Vance credits practicing Catholicism with making him a better person.<\/h2>\n

Vance says practicing his Catholic faith has helped him increase his patience, curb his temper, forgive more easily, and choose his family over his career.<\/p>\n

After he became a Catholic, Vance wrote in his conversion essay: \u201cI realized that there was a part of me \u2014 the best part \u2014 that took its cues from Catholicism.\u201d<\/p>\n

13. Vance hasn\u2019t yet explained how his current position on abortion squares with his Catholic faith.<\/h2>\n

Vance began public life as thoroughly pro-life.<\/p>\n

In September 2021, several months after he began running for U.S. Senate in Ohio, Vance said he supported Texas\u2019 law banning abortion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think in Texas they\u2019re trying to make it easier for unborn babies to be born,\u201d Vance said during an interview with Spectrum News 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Asked about abortion in the cases of rape and incest, Vance said the question is \u201cwhether a child should be allowed to live.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, I think two wrongs don\u2019t make a right. At the end of the day, we\u2019re talking about an unborn baby,\u201d Vance said (at 11:11 of the interview<\/a>). \u201cWhat kind of society do we want to have? A society that looks at unborn babies as inconveniences to be discarded?\u201d<\/p>\n

His tone shifted during a debate<\/a> in October 2022 when he zei<\/a> he supported \u201creasonable exceptions,\u201d including allowing a pregnant 10-year-old girl to have an abortion.<\/p>\n

During a second debate that month, he zei<\/a> he supported a proposal in Congress at the time that would have banned abortion nationwide after 15 weeks.<\/p>\n

More recently, Vance has aligned his public positions on abortion with those of his running mate, former president Donald Trump, who has said he wouldn\u2019t sign a federal limitation on abortion and that he wouldn\u2019t ban abortion pills.<\/p>\n

On abortion pills, Vance told an interviewer<\/a> on NBC on July 7 that he supports a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that, according to him, said that \u201cthe American people should have access to that medication.\u201d Pressed about mifepristone<\/a>, one of the two abortion chemicals, he said he supports access to it.<\/p>\n

Vance has not at this writing publicly explained how he integrates his Catholic faith with his current position on abortion.<\/p>\n

But he seemed to contemplate this sort of situation in an interview with Dreher in August 2019, shortly after his conversion and three years before he was elected to public office.<\/p>\n

He noted that politics \u201cis in part a popularity contest,\u201d and he pointed out a tension between getting votes and living a life of faith.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re trying to do things that make you liked by as many people as possible, you\u2019re not likely to do things that are consistent with the teachings of the Catholic Church,\u201d Vance said then. \u201cI\u2019m a Christian, and a conservative, and a Republican, so I have definite views about what that means. But you have to be humble and realize that politics are essentially a temporal game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dit verhaal <\/em>werd voor het eerst gepubliceerd<\/em><\/a> door het National Catholic Register, de zuster-nieuws-partner van CNA, en is bewerkt door CNA.<\/em><\/p>\n

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