Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s 2019 conversion to Catholicism helped shape his political worldview.
6 minutes agoFILE - Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, speaks at a campaign event in Erie, Pa., Aug. 28, 2024. By his own account, Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s 2019 conversion to Catholicism provided a spiritual fulfillment he couldn’t find in his Yale education or career success.Catholicism provided him a new way of looking at the addictions, family breakdowns and other social ills he described in his 2016 bestselling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy.
But where Catholic conservatives of the past have seen big government as a problem rather than a solution, the postliberals want a muscular government — one that they control. Vance’s preoccupations show an influence from the movement, he said, citing his remarks about the childless. Vance had strongly opposed abortion, even in cases of rape and incest, in the runup to his 2022 senatorial win.in 2024, in which it backed off from its longstanding support for nationwide abortion restrictions. He pledged he could “absolutely commit” that a Trump-Vance administration would not impose such an abortion ban.
It remains to be seen whether Catholic postliberals would get prominent appointments in a Trump-Vance administration — or even how often they’d get their calls returned.
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