Axios: Vance’s new book lifts up Catholic converts. Comment: I am at present read “Hillbilly Elegy” by J.D. Vance and the depth and sincerity exudes from a life based on hardship and community and gives hope to people about life. Highly recommend reading Hillbilly Elegy. J.D. is Vice President of U.S. but as he is only 40 years old he could be President of U.S.

 Vance’s new book lifts up Catholic converts
 
Photo illustration of Vice President JD Vance, a cross, and a Catholic priest
Photo illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
 
Vice President JD Vance’s new memoir about his conversion to Catholicism — “Communion,” out today — puts a high-profile face on a small but distinctive slice of Roman Catholics in the U.S., Axios’ Russell Contreras writes.

Data shows the church’s converts tend to be whiter, more conservative, and more observant than “cradle Catholics,” or those born into the faith

📚 “The story of how I regained my faith,” Vance writes in his book, shared with Axios, “only happened because I had lost it to begin with. … I’m glad I found my way back to the Church. I learned much along the way. But if you believe as I do, you know I’ve been fortunate and touched by God’s grace.

“Many people like me, once lost, never return. This is what worries me and so many other Christians, and it’s why I will spend so much time on what led me to discard my faith.”

🧮 By the numbers: Catholic converts are more observant by some measures. 38% attend Mass weekly, compared with 28% of cradle Catholics.58% say they receive Communion every time they go to Mass, compared with 34% of cradle Catholics.Cover: Harper

Recounting his conversations about faith with his friend Charlie Kirk before his assassination, Vance writes:”Charlie taught me to love all parts of our Christian communion. I take from Charlie a certain charity about the body of Christ — the Church, defined very broadly. I am proud of my denomination, and I follow its (very strict!) rules as well as I can. When I fail, I go to confession and get back on the proverbial horse.”

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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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