Re “In Catholicism, Vance Adopts a ‘Resistance’” (front page, Aug. 25): As a Catholic intellectual and professional historian whose politics bears no resemblance to that of JD Vance, I ...

His conversion to Catholicism came not as a blinding flash of light, he says, but by reading Augustine and being persuaded by a passage from Augustine’s “City of God” on Genesis.

A growing number of young people are turning to the Catholic Church from other denominations, religions, and even no faith at all. Some dioceses are reporting year-over-year increases in new ...

It also amounted to a political conversion. Catholicism provided him a new way of looking at the addictions, family breakdowns and other social ills he described in his 2016 bestselling memoir ...

His conversion to Catholicism came not as a blinding flash of light, he says, but by reading Augustine and being persuaded by a passage from Augustine’s “City of God” on Genesis.

Now, largely as a result of these new converts, Catholicism and Orthodoxy are also becoming more polarized. Laypeople attacking their hierarchs is about the least “trad” thing one can do.

Catholicism is very supportive of this idea of using your natural reasoning to get to — and to get to points of identifiable morality. So, I think that that part resonated with her.