Vance gives Catholic converts a bigger stage
Summary
Vice President JD Vance’s new memoir shares his story of converting to Catholicism, highlighting a small but noticeable group of U.S. adults who become Catholic later in life. A recent Pew Research study shows that while the Catholic Church gains some converts, it still loses more members overall, and converts tend to be whiter, more conservative, and attend church more often than those born into Catholic families.Key Facts
- About 1.5% of U.S. adults are converts to Catholicism, making up around 8% of all U.S. Catholics.
- Most converts come from Protestant backgrounds or have no childhood religious affiliation.
- Nearly half of converts become Catholic because of family reasons, like marrying a Catholic spouse.
- Converts attend Mass and receive Communion more regularly than Catholics born into the faith.
- Vance’s background matches many convert traits: white, born in the U.S., Republican, and raised outside Catholicism.
- Vance’s wife is Hindu, which differs from most converts who marry Catholics.
- Despite some growth in converts, data show the Catholic Church is still losing more members than it gains through conversion.
- The study used large, recent surveys of tens of thousands of U.S. adults with small margins of error to reach its conclusions.
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