U.S. Vice President JD Vance is promoting his second memoir, Communion, and Democrats are attacking what they portray as the irreconcilable contradictions between Vance’s positions as Vice President and the compassionate tenets of his religion. Vance, who became a Catholic in 2019, said the book is “about my personal journey and how I found my way back to faith.”
Trump critic Jack Schlossberg, son of former U.S. Ambassador to Japan and Australia Caroline Kennedy, mocked Vance by replying on social media: “As Jesus famously said: ‘show me your papers’ ‘stop being poor’ ‘Bombs away!’” (Schlossberg is currently running for Congress in New York to replace retiring Democrat Rep. Jerry Nadler.)
As Jesus famously said:
“show me your papers”
“stop being poor”
“Bombs away !” https://t.co/PwFevr2bB9
— Jack Schlossberg (@JBKSchlossberg) March 31, 2026
Note: Roman Catholic Pope Leo XIV has criticized Vance regarding his views and the Trump administration’s policies on immigration and foreign policy. The Pope challenged Vance’s stance that Catholics should prioritize national love over global, and last week on Palm Sunday said that God “does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.” Leo, a Chicago native and the first American-born man ever elected Pope, declined an invitation to the U.S. 250th anniversary, choosing to attend an immigrant advocacy event in Italy instead.
Note: According to the book blurb for Communion: “Picking up in some ways where Hillbilly Elegy left off, Communion recounts how Vance’s pursuit of material privileges ultimately led him into a secular wilderness.”
The book also “reveals how Vance regained his faith and discusses his conversion to Catholicism, how his faith guides his work in public life, and how it shapes his thoughts about the future.”