
Jul 30, 2026
✦Financial Times News
Can Vance square his Catholicism with Trump's Republican Party?
JD Vance explores his Catholic conversion in his new book, Communion. He criticizes the religious right for ignoring the economic struggles of the working class. Vance says leaders have "completely ignored questions of economic policy and material wellbeing." He now hopes to reimagine what it means to be a conservative Christian.