1 day ago · Less than a week after Vice President JD Vance shared the inauguration stage with a senior Catholic cardinal, Vance picked a fight with the top American leaders of his church. The new vice president, a Catholic convert, accused the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops of resettling “illegal immigrants” in order to get federal funding. New ...

Jan 27, 2025 · Vance then criticized Catholic leaders during an interview with CBS News' “Face the Nation,” arguing that the church has “not been a good partner in common sense immigration enforcement.” Vice President JD Vance says he's "heartbroken" by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops condemning some of President Trump's executive orders ...

Jan 31, 2025 · Some Catholic stakeholders in Washington and beyond worry that by suggesting the church is benefitting financially from the resettlement program, Vance opens a door for bigots. Anti-Catholic nativists in the 19 th and early 20 th century often cast the church as greedy, seeking public funding for their parochial schools or as payouts to ...

2 days ago · Vance was responding to statements by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops condemning as “deeply troubling” the administration’s enforcement actions against illegal aliens and its pause of government-funded refugee-resettlement programs. As a Catholic, Vance said, the criticism left him “heartbroken.” Then he hit out at the church ...

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. “I...

Jan 30, 2025 · John Carr, who for two decades led the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ office on social justice efforts, said Vance’s criticisms “showed an unprecedented lack of respect for the work of ...

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 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....

Sep 4, 2024 · Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s 2019 conversion to Catholicism helped shape his political worldview. It also put him in close touch with a Catholic intellectual movement known as postliberalism.

Nov 21, 2024 · The Ohio-born Vance rarely attended church as a child, noting the grandmother who chiefly raised him — while a believer in Jesus — “loathed ‘organized religion.'”