In his new memoir, the vice-president covers his conversion and politics – at a time when hardline Catholicism is ascendant in the US

Vance applies Catholic social teachings to political questions and prioritizes social conservatism over the low-tax, low-regulation economic variety.

In “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” Vance chronicles his spiritual journey from childhood to young adulthood, his abandonment of religion and his eventual conversion to…