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Most Sundays, as J.\u00a0D. Vance tells it in his new memoir, \u201cCommunion,\u201d he and his wife, Usha, take their three children to Mass. \u201cSometimes we arrive late, trailed by an army of Secret Service agents, and heads turn away from the service to stare at us. I quietly apologize, wondering if the other parishioners can tell that we didn\u2019t brush our daughter\u2019s hair.\u201d This past Sunday, though, Vice-President Vance was in Lucerne, Switzerland, playing peacemaker\u2014tasked with working out the details of the Administration\u2019s vague memorandum of understanding with Iran, which is meant to put an end to President Donald Trump\u2019s war of choice against that nation. Before Vance set out, Trump had made his sense of the stakes clear: \u201cIf it works out, I\u2019m going to take the credit. If it doesn\u2019t, I\u2019m blaming J.D.\u201d So it was that a few days after sitting for interviews about a book recounting his conversion to Catholicism\u2014a press tour seen as a soft opening for his likely 2028 Presidential campaign\u2014the self-styled \u201cdevout Christian\u201d found himself the public face of a war that he had once privately been reluctant to support, trying to negotiate a truce on behalf of his profane and immoral boss. How, then, does his faith shape his approach to matters of war and peace? You might expect to find out from \u201cCommunion,\u201d which is subtitled \u201cFinding My Way Back to Faith,\u201d but much of the book focusses on Vance\u2019s life before politics, and it doesn\u2019t touch much on this subject.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCommunion\u201d is a clunky mix of memoir, dad monologue, starchy Catholic disquisition, apologia, and broadside about the perilous state of the world. It was nearly a decade in the making, but it has the hasty quality of writing done by a father of three who works for an overbearing man and who gets his best downtime aboard Air Force Two. Styled as a confessional, it\u2019s more like a humblebrag\u2014the story of a man\u2019s search for self-knowledge that winds up conveying his robust self-regard. And yet the book\u2019s muddled character is revealing. \u201cCommunion\u201d has been published amid circumstances that were hardly conceivable when Vance began writing it, not long after he finished his d\u00e9but memoir, \u201cHillbilly Elegy,\u201d published in 2016. The candidate about whom, in a note to a friend that year, he had worried might be \u201cAmerica\u2019s Hitler,\u201d Donald Trump, is now serving a nonconsecutive second term in the White House, and Vance is now his Vice-President. The Pope, Leo XIV, is an American from Chicago\u2019s bungalow belt, and, after him, the second most prominent American Catholic is Vance himself\u2014a youngish convert from small-town evangelical Protestantism, a Marine veteran, and an alumnus of Ohio State and Yale Law. He worked in venture capital, for a time at a firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, the right-wing billionaire (and lecturer on the Antichrist) co-founder of PayPal; briefly served in the Senate; and is apparently setting up a bid for the Presidency with a book about what he calls his \u201csearch for a relevant faith.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Parts of \u201cCommunion\u201d are spent defending the Trump Administration\u2019s policies, but its glaze of piety, outward regard for learning, and reverence for history situate it far from the current Oval Office. And that effect is an achievement, whether Vance intended it or not. Fundamentally, \u201cCommunion\u201d is a declaration of independence from Trump. The scattershot narrative channels the energies and the prerogatives of the conservative Catholic movement, whose tribune Vance already is, and musters them, seemingly, for a Presidential campaign in which he might distinguish himself from Trump (and perhaps from Marco Rubio, who is also a Catholic) through conspicuous displays of personal religious faith.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The through line of the book is a conversion narrative: Vance tells a story of his abandonment of his maternal grandmother\u2019s Christian faith and his return to Christianity by way of Catholicism. He makes this into a call to action, urging American society to reclaim its putative roots in Christianity and its mores. An emerging politician\u2019s embrace of Christian faith has an obvious recent precedent in American politics: Barack Obama, who, at a climactic moment in \u201cDreams from My Father\u201d (1995), finds himself in a church on Chicago\u2019s South Side, moved to tears by the Reverend Jeremiah Wright\u2019s sermon on \u201cthe audacity of hope\u201d\u2014a phrase that became the title of his Presidential campaign-trail book (though he later left Wright\u2019s church, following some controversial remarks the Reverend made). The two men\u2019s faith journeys are distinctly different, of course. Obama\u2019s \u201csearch for a workable meaning for his life as a Black American\u201d involved the Black Church, which gets scant attention in Vance\u2019s sketch of America\u2019s Christian roots. But Vance, like Obama, uses a personal embrace of faith to link his outsider narrative to a larger story of American purpose.<\/p>\n

Although some pages of the book are devoted to the issues of sexual morality that Christian politicians typically address, Vance gives greater emphasis to philosophy and theology. The pages on these subjects are a collection of theo-conservative greatest hits\u2014and an evocation of a world apart from Trumpism. The twin pillars of conservative Christian thought are here: C. S. Lewis (whose \u201ccollected works\u201d\u2014several dozen books\u2014Vance says he has \u201cre-read\u201d) and G. K. Chesterton (whose account of the human person as both angel and beast, he explains, \u201cseemed right to me and still does\u201d). So are Job, Augustine, Aquinas, Pascal and his wager, as well as a nineteenth-century Catholic prayer to St. Michael the Archangel, asking him to \u201cDefend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.\u201d (The prayer can be found on Hallow, a Catholic prayer app popular among traditionalist Catholics, which Vance invested in, in 2020, through Narya Capital, a V.C. firm that he co-founded with funding from, among others, Peter Thiel.)<\/p>\n

At a number of points, Vance\u2019s conversion narrative is right on trend. He got his tutelage in Catholicism from some friars of the Dominican order\u2014the same order that has lately attracted press for cultivating a thriving \u201ctheo-bro\u201d culture in a Greenwich Village parish, centered on Sunday-evening Masses for eight hundred and fifty congregants, most of them stylish young social-media adepts, followed by a wine social, called In Vino Veritas, in the church basement. A revelation that Vance had about the enduring power of Christianity during his first visit to St. Peter\u2019s Basilica, last April\u2014\u201cHere in Rome it was obvious: Caesar was dead. Christ still lived\u201d\u2014is recounted in terms akin to those used by Robert Barron, a Catholic bishop who has gained prominence through videos and social media, and who is a regular at the Trump White House. A section on the relationship between industrialized countries\u2019 birth rates and their levels of religious affiliation is informed by the new Catholic natalists, who urge married couples in the West to have large families, in part to offset large families in the Global South. There\u2019s also a shout-out to Rod Dreher, the conservative author of \u201cThe Benedict Option,\u201d a widely discussed book proposing that Christians need to create distinctive subcultures away from the toxic mainstream of prosperous secular societies. Dreher was the first writer to publicize Vance\u2019s conversion, through an online interview in 2019.<\/p>\n

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Surprisingly, Vance even tips his hat to \u201cRerum Novarum,\u201d an 1891 encyclical by Pope Leo XIII. Written in response to the rapid changes brought on by industrial capitalism, the encyclical is claimed by both progressive and conservative Catholics as a charter for their approaches. Progressives cite its emphasis on the dignity of work and workers, and on the need for government to regulate working conditions that threaten this dignity. Vance indicates that he read the encyclical while still in a \u201cChristian curious\u201d phase. Unsurprisingly, he takes the conservative view of it, which emphasizes the role of \u201cmediating institutions\u201d that help people help one another and which the government should sponsor rather than regulate or replace. \u201cThis idea that we all exist within particular spheres of family, community, and on and on, building up to a nation, is called subsidiarity,\u201d Vance writes. \u201cAnd it recognizes that each sphere of life depends on the others. It is very hard to be a good family man unless you have a decent wage and have support from friends, community, and church.\u201d After giving his summary of the encyclical, Vance declares that \u201cit felt more right than any theory of human nature I\u2019d ever read.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The current Pope Leo has made \u201cRerum Novarum\u201d a touchstone for his pontificate, and the section on the encyclical in \u201cCommunion\u201d reads as if it were written with him in mind. For a devout convert to Catholicism, Vance has a bumpy history with the Vatican. On April 10th, more than a month into the Iran war, Leo wrote, on X, that \u201ca disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs.\u201d Two days later, the President lashed out at the Pope on social media, calling him \u201cWEAK on Crime and terrible for Foreign Policy.\u201d Then, speaking at a Turning Point USA event in Georgia, Vance insinuated that the Pope\u2019s insight was not \u201canchored in the truth,\u201d adding, \u201cI think it\u2019s very, very important for the Pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology.\u201d Those remarks echoed a provocation from last year in which Vance faulted the U.S. bishops for their solicitude toward immigrants, drawing what was widely interpreted as a rebuke from Pope Francis, in the form of a letter to the bishops.<\/p>\n

Every time the Vice-President tangles with a Pope, he comes off as a jerk who mistakes his self-confidence for wisdom. That hasn\u2019t done much to help his image, even among Republican Catholics, who, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey, like Pope Leo a bit more than they liked Pope Francis. And it can\u2019t be good for a Presidential candidacy\u2014though the coverage, even when negative, did serve to elevate him to the same league as the Pope, as if he were one world leader addressing another. But, for now, and with this book, Vance seems to be keeping the door open to a rapprochement with Leo\u2014say, a personal encounter at the Vatican that would provide a vivid photo op.<\/p>\n

How is it that a Catholic bent on gaining greater humility winds up scolding two Popes? More important, how can a person who professes to believe what Vance believes, and who seeks what he seeks\u2014a man who yearns for a \u201cculture of virtue\u201d\u2014thrive in the moral cesspool of the current White House? When Ross Douthat asked Vance, on a Times<\/em> podcast, to address \u201cthree areas where the Administration has felt functionally post-Christian,\u201d he faltered, giving a rambling, lawyerly non-reply: \u201cFor every clip that you could show me of me or the President or some Cabinet secretary saying something that in your view is un-Christian, I could show you another few clips of us doing something or saying something that is very Christian.\u201d Vance doesn\u2019t give a satisfactory answer to how a \u201cdevout Christian\u201d can square his values with Trump\u2019s in \u201cCommunion,\u201d either, likely because there isn\u2019t one.<\/p>\n

That may be why Vance devotes so much of \u201cCommunion\u201d to the years before he joined the Administration. The book leaves the impression that he is already looking beyond Trump; indeed, that he has been all along. But stress tests like the last-minute diplomatic mission to Switzerland suggest that the President is determined to make sure that Vance, no matter how set on the Kingdom of Heaven, will serve Trump first.\u00a0\u2666<\/p>\n

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