J.D. Vance Releases 1 New Book on Faith, Marriage and Western Civilization

2 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 14

"Communion" presents four intertwined threads centered on Vance’s conversion to Catholicism, with Father Henry Stephan depicted as a key guide in that spiritual journey.
The book also recounts Vance’s courtship with his wife Usha and frames their marriage and family life as part of its broader argument about meaning, faith and social cohesion.
Several chapters widen into political and civilizational reflection, questioning the post-Cold War rules-based order, unrestricted immigration and the replacement of religious worldviews by economic theory.
Vance casts the work less as a policy manifesto than as a spiritual biography, drawing on Catholic thinkers and writers while directly condemning the Church’s sexual-abuse scandal and cover-ups.