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.

Converting to Catholicism was joining “the resistance,” he wrote in the Catholic journal.. This portrait of Mr. Vance’s Catholic conversion and beliefs is drawn from dozens of his public ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

By his own account, Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s 2019 conversion to Catholicism provided a spiritual fulfillment he couldn’t find in his Yale education or career success.

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.