Hillbilly Politician: J.D. Vance’s Difficult Childhood and His Conversion to the Catholic Faith, by Kathy Schiffer

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J.D. Vance, Catholic Faith. No attribution found.

By Kathy Schiffer, Crisis Magazine, Aug. 20, 2024

Kathy Schiffer is a Catholic blogger. Her work can be found at the National Catholic Register, Aleteia, Legatus Magazine, the Michigan Catholic, and other Catholic sites. She has worked in Catholic and Christian nonprofit organizations since 1998. Among her roles, Kathy was Al Kresta’s producer at Ave Maria Radio, and conference director for Legatus.

 

Although J.D. Vance speaks little about Christianity in Hillbilly Elegy, we can see the beginnings of the progression that led him to the Catholic Faith.

Kathy SchifferI thought, when I picked up a copy of vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance’s 2016 autobiographical book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, that I would find (a) well-reasoned arguments for his political positions, and (b) inspiring reflections about how he was challenged and changed by his Catholic faith.

What I discovered was something quite different. Vance shared anecdotes from his childhood that left me in happy tears: stories about his life with an eccentric and foul-mouthed grandmother whom he affectionately called “Mamaw”; stories about his mother’s serial marriages; stories about his own adventures in the “hillbilly South.” …

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