Thursday, July 25, 2024

Who is he?

Wikipedia:

Around 2011,[102] Vance met his wife, Usha Chilukuri, while both were graduate students at Yale Law School.[103] He has called her "my Yale spirit guide".[103] In 2014, they married in Kentucky, in an interfaith marriageceremony;[104][105] she is a Hindu and he a Christian.[104][106] Their wedding included a Bible reading by Vance's "best friend", Jamil Jivani,[45][107] and the couple was blessed by a Hindu pandit.[103][102] The couple went on to have three children.

Vance was raised in a "conservative, evangelical" branch of Protestantism. By September 2016, he was "not an active participant" in any particular Christian denomination, but was "thinking very seriously about converting to Catholicism".[109] In August 2019, Vance was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church in a ceremony at St. Gertrude Priory in Cincinnati, Ohio. He chose Augustine of Hippo as his confirmation saint. Vance said he converted because he "became persuaded over time that Catholicism was true [...] and Augustine gave me a way to understand Christian faith in a strongly intellectual way", further describing Catholic theology's influence on his political views.[110]