About six months into the second Trump presidency, Republicans are charting a collision course with the Catholic Church.

WASHINGTON — Five years ago, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, former President Donald Trump’s newly minted running mate, was baptized into the Catholic Church. His journey to Catholicism is a complicated ...

How JD Vance, who admired the LDS Church, found his way to the Catholic Church In his 30s, the Republican vice presidential nominee read works on theology, mysticism, and political and moral ...

From his new home in Cincinnati, JD Vance would go to St. Gertrude to meet the friar. It was a fitting place for the millennial aspiring politician, who was drawn to the Roman Catholic Church’s ...

With his criticism of U.S. Catholic bishops for supporting immigrants, Vice President JD Vance has reignited years of GOP attacks on the Catholic Church as both sides navigate an issue that has ...

WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance shared his condolences after the death of Pope Francis, which came a day after he met with the head of the Catholic Church in the Vatican. Vance, a Catholic ...

How JD Vance, a ‘baby Catholic,’ stumbled into a clash with the pope. ... the 88-year-old head of the Catholic Church delivered an extraordinary statement. In a letter to American bishops, ...

When JD Vance met Pope Leo XIV on May 18, he didn’t kiss the Fisherman’s Ring that had been placed on the new Pope’s right ring finger just hours earlier. Not because Vance, as a Catholic ...

Vice President JD Vance fired back at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops over its denunciation of the Trump administration ... has previously clashed with leadership in the Catholic Church, ...

Vice President JD Vance is spending Easter weekend in Rome, where he’ll meet with a top Vatican official amid tension with the Catholic Church over the Trump administration’s hardline ...

JD Vance’s Catholic conversion raises questions about faith ... So hardcore is the Catholic Church that John F. Kennedy's 1960 run for the White House was colored by serious concerns that he ...

With his criticism of U.S. Catholic bishops for supporting immigrants, Vice President JD Vance has reignited years of GOP attacks on the Catholic Church as both sides navigate an issue that has ...