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Vice President JD Vance says the Catholic faith feels “at home” as he recalls his journey to find the Lord in his new book “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith.”
The vice president opened up on “Jesse Watters Primetime” recently about his book, which is set to be released June 16 and describes his “long and winding road” to finding faith in God after feeling “lost” as a child. Before finding Christ, Vance explained that he felt like “American popular culture” was telling him not to focus on “important things.”
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Pope Leo XIV holds a private audience with US Vice President JD Vance at the Apostolic Palace on May 19, 2025, in Vatican City, Vatican. (Simone Risoluti Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images)
“It made me the type of person who focused too much on what kind of school I went to, the money I earned, the kind of job I had. I was too focused on respect and not enough on important things,” he recalled.
When Vance became a husband and father, everything changed.
“I married the girl I loved, I became a father for the first time,” he said. “I was thinking about the most important things—like how to be a good person, how to be good, how to be a good and supportive husband, how to raise this son to be a good man himself—and the more I thought about these big, very important questions, the more it brought me back to my faith.”
Vance, who credited his grandmother with initially planting the “seed” of faith in him as a young boy, realized he needed “an ancient foundation of faith.” Then he turned to the church.
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Second Lady Usha Vance and US Vice President JD Vance arrive at a military mothers celebration in the East Room of the White House on May 6, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
“It felt like the world was changing so quickly and so was what I loved about it Catholicism you had this beautiful ancient church and you had all these traditions that had very strong roots, some of them going back literally thousands of years,” Vance told Fox News. “I just really loved that sense of tradition … When I went to the Catholic Church, I felt at home.
Second wife Usha Vance was very supportive of her husband’s journey, even though the couple have different religious beliefs.
“Despite the fact that Usha himself was not raised as a Christian, he is one of the people who encouraged me to go on this religious journey, to rediscover my faith, and of course, he is with me every Sunday in church,” he said.
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US Vice President JD Vance speaks at the 20th annual National Prayer Morning Commemoration in Washington, DC, on February 28, 2025. (TING SHEN/AFP via Getty Images)
Usha Vance told him that he felt the act of conversion and thinking about God and the Christian life made him “a better person.”
“It is very powerful to have a Hindu, a Catholic a father, two Catholic children, and one four-year-old girl who doesn’t understand, but I wouldn’t have it any other way,” said the vice president.
