US vice-president JD Vance has introduced a new memoir centred on his conversion to Catholicism, including to mounting speculation about a potential 2028 presidential run.
The ebook, titled Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, might be revealed on 16 June by HarperCollins and is described as “a spiritual exploration of what it means to be a Christian across the seasons of Vance’s life”.
In a post on X, Vance stated he had been engaged on the venture “for a long time” and described it as an account of rediscovering faith: “Communion is about my personal journey and how I found my way back to faith.”
According to the writer, the ebook discusses Vance’s lack of religion and eventual return to Christianity. Vance transformed to Catholicism in 2019 when he was 35, after being raised in a loosely evangelical household. His ebook, stated the writer, “reveals how his faith guides his work in public life, and how it informs his vision for the future”.
The information comes at a second when Vance is more and more considered as an early frontrunner for the 2028 nomination to succeed Trump. Publishing a memoir forward of a presidential run is a well-worn path in US politics. On the Democratic aspect, a number of potential 2028 contenders have not too long ago launched or introduced books, together with Kamala Harris, California governor Gavin Newsom, Kentucky governor Andy Beshear and Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro.
Vance’s emphasis on religion displays a growing prominence of religion in his political identity. His Catholic conversion has knowledgeable his positions on points resembling abortion and household coverage, and he has up to now justified the White House’s deportation insurance policies with his interpretation of Catholicism, utilizing ordo amoris – “order of love” – to defend prioritising obligations to fellow residents over outsiders.
Those views have at instances been criticised by senior figures in the Vatican. Before changing into Pope Leo XIV in May 2025, an X account apparently belonging to him shared criticism of the White House’s plans for mass deportations of migrants. The account additionally shared a hyperlink to an opinion piece titled ‘JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others’.
Without naming Vance instantly, the late Pope Francis argued in a letter that “the true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the ‘Good Samaritan’ … that is, by meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception”.
Communion follows the success of Vance’s first ebook, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, revealed in 2016. The memoir chronicled his upbringing in rural Ohio, and his journey from a troubled household background to Yale Law School. It grew to become a bestseller, spending greater than 200 weeks on the New York Times listing and promoting greater than 5 million copies worldwide, and was later tailored into a movie by Ron Howard starring Glenn Close and Amy Adams.
