Five faith facts about Trump's VP pick, JD Vance
Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, center, is introduced during the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 15, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
On the first day of the Republican National Convention, former President Donald Trump announced Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance will be his running mate as he seeks reelection. Before his election to the Senate in 2022, Vance was a tech venture capitalist and the author of the bestselling Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis about his family history, upbringing in Middletown, Ohio, and the broader struggles facing white working-class Americans.
Vance, an adult convert to Catholicism and married to a Hindu woman, has a complicated relationship with religion and, after his recent support for keeping mifepristone, an abortion pill, legal, with the GOP’s religious base. Here are five faith facts about Vance:
Vance is an adult convert to Catholicism
Vance converted to Catholicism in August of 2019, when he was baptized and confirmed at St. Gertrude Priory in Cincinnati, Ohio, by Henry Stephan, a Dominican friar. According to an interview with American expatriate and writer Rod Dreher, who was present at the baptism, Vance chose St. Augustine as his patron saint.
