6 days ago · As the Trump administration overhauls immigration policy and raises concerns about refugee resettlement, Vice President JD Vance is battling with his church about faith-based service to immigrants and refugees. The conflict began on Wednesday, when the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops put out a ...

2 days ago · Vance’s shot across the bow at his church’s American establishment was just the latest example of the simmering tensions between Trump’s political movement and the country’s Catholic community over immigration.

Jul 21, 2024 · Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance has written extensively about his life in faith, both in a mega-selling memoir and in a long essay for The Lamp.

5 days ago · In Vance’s first interview since becoming vice president, host Margaret Brennan noted that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops “condemned” Trump’s immigration-related executive orders, and asked Vance, “Do you personally support the idea of conducting a raid or enforcement action in a church service, at a school?”

2 days ago · Catholic leaders expressed dismay after Vance, who is Catholic, questioned whether the church’s substantial, decades-long work with migrants is driven by a desire for money.

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...

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.

Aug 25, 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...

Jul 16, 2024 · But Vance is far from the first Catholic politician to be out of step with the Catholic Church’s teachings on abortion, which state that life begins at conception and that any “procured abortion” is a moral evil, according to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Jul 17, 2024 · At 39 years old, Ohio Sen. James David “J.D.” Vance, Donald Trump’s newly announced running mate in the 2024 election, has a chance to become the United States’ second Catholic vice president....