Vice President JD Vance says the Catholic faith feels “like home” as he remembers his journey to find the Lord in his new book “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith.”
A Journey of Faith
The vice president opened up to “Jesse Watters Primetime” recently about his book, which is set for release on June 16 and details his “long and winding road” to find faith in God after feeling he “lost it” as a young man.
Before finding Christ, Vance described feeling like the “American elite culture” was telling him to not focus on the “things that mattered.” “It was forming me to be the kind of person who focused way too much on what kind of school I went to, on how much money I made, on what kind of job I (had). I was way too focused on prestige and not enough on the things that mattered,” he recalled.
When Vance became a husband and a father, everything changed. “I married this girl who I’d fallen in love with, and I became a father for the first time,” he said. “I was thinking about much more important things — like how to be a good person, how to be virtuous, how to be a good and supportive husband, how to raise this son to be a good man himself — and the more that I thought about these bigger, more important questions, the more that that drew me back to my faith.”
Support from Family
Second lady Usha Vance was very supportive of her husband’s journey, though the couple has differing faith beliefs. “Despite the fact that Usha herself was not raised Christian, she was one of the people who really encouraged me to go down this faith journey, rediscover my own faith, and of course, she’s there with me every Sunday in church,” he shared.
Usha Vance told him she felt the act of converting and thinking about God and the Christian life made him a “better person.” “It’s definitely dynamic to have a Hindu, a Catholic father, two Catholic kids, and one four-year-old girl who hasn’t figured it out yet, but I wouldn’t take it any other way,” the vice president said.
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