{"id":3898,"date":"2026-04-02T09:11:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/3898\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T09:11:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:11:20","slug":"vances-book-cover-contains-an-embarrassing-blunder-as-he-is-ready-to-talk-about-his-conversion-to-catholicism-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/3898\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance\u2019s book cover contains an embarrassing blunder as he is ready to talk about his conversion to Catholicism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vice President JD Vance\u2019s upcoming memoir <\/a>about his conversion to Catholicism<\/a> features an embarrassing slip-up \u2014 the idyllic church pictured on the front cover isn\u2019t Catholic.<\/p>\n

Vance, 41, announced Tuesday that Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith would come out June 16. The cover of the book, set to be published by Harper, the flagship imprint of HarperCollins, features a charming white church in rural Appalachia.<\/p>\n

While Vance is a staunch Catholic<\/a>, the image chosen for his book\u2019s cover is of Mount Zion Church in Elk Creek, Virginia, which is a United Methodist house of worship, according to The Bulwark\u2019s national political reporter Joe Perticone. <\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cMount Zion is undeniably photogenic, which is why it\u2019s also a popular stock image,\u201d Perticone wrote. \u201cVance\u2019s choice of photo struck me as odd, given that the vice president has been outspoken about his Catholic faith.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vance\u2019s 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, elevated his public profile and laid the groundwork for his career in politics. Published by HarperCollins in 2016, it shared his story of growing up in Middletown, Ohio, and summers spent with family in Appalachia.<\/p>\n

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Vice President JD Vance\u2019s 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, elevated his public profile and laid the groundwork for his career in politics (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\"Vance<\/p>\n

Vance announced Tuesday that Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith would come out June 16 (AP)<\/p>\n

The book also gave Vance the reputation as someone who could help explain Trump\u2019s appeal to middle America especially among rural, working-class white voters.<\/p>\n

Vance\u2019s new book is described by HarperCollins<\/a> as \u201can intimate account\u201d of why the vice president \u201cstrayed from the Christianity of his youth and what led him back to faith.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vance converted to Catholicism in 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe story of how I regained my faith, of course, only happened because I had lost it to begin with,\u201d Vance said about the new book, according to a press release from the publisher.<\/p>\n

\"Vance\u2019s<\/p>\n

Vance\u2019s 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, elevated his public profile and laid the groundwork for his career in politics. Published by HarperCollins in 2016, it shared his story of growing up in Middletown, Ohio, and summers spent with family in Appalachia<\/p>\n

\u201cThe interesting question that hangs over this book, and over my mind, is why I ever strayed from the path. Why the Christian faith of my youth failed to properly take root.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Vance directed inquiries to the publisher. The Independent has contacted HarperCollins for comment.<\/p>\n

Vance, who started out as a harsh critic of Trump, was selected as his running mate during the 2024 election. During a debate against Democratic VP nominee Tim Walz, Vance said that he was misled by \u201cdishonest fabrications\u201d when he compared Trump to Hitler.<\/p>\n

There is growing speculation that Vance is gearing up to run for president in 2028. <\/a>Many presidential hopefuls release books before announcing their campaigns. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro have both recently released memoirs, and are rumored candidates in the Democratic field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vice President JD Vance\u2019s upcoming memoir about his conversion to Catholicism features an embarrassing slip-up \u2014 the idyllic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[119],"tags":[3389,1123,1648,169,168,3231],"class_list":["post-3898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jd-vance","tag-appalachia","tag-catholicism","tag-harpercollins","tag-james-david-vance","tag-jd-vance","tag-vice-president"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116334341911282518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}