My Thoughts on the Vice President's New Book, "Communion" | August 16, 2026

I just finished J.D. Vance’s “Communion: My Return to Faith,” and what stays with us is not a campaign story but a spiritual one: a man formed by instability, wounded family life, and the wider ache of Middle America after deindustrialization and the opioid crisis, trying to find a foundation that won’t crumble when life gets loud. The search turns intellectual and moral as Catholic social teaching enters the picture, especially Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum and the Church’s insistence on hu...