True, but Catholicism? He was raised Vance was raised in a "conservative, evangelical" branch of Protestantism.
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Vance was raised in a "conservative, evangelical" branch of Protestantism.[242] When entering college, he was an atheist.[243] By September 2016, he was "not an active participant" in any particular Christian denomination, but was "thinking very seriously about converting to Catholicism".[242] In August 2019, Vance was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church. 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 pointing out Catholic theology's alignment with his political views and key people in his life being Catholic.[244][245][246] Vance was influenced to convert to Catholicism by Peter Thiel.[247] He has drawn criticism from both Pope Francis and his successor, Pope Leo XIV,[248] for misrepresenting Church teaching in his support for policies like the deportation of migrants and responded by invoking the traditional concept of ordo amoris present in Catholic theology, which he interprets as loving his own nationals more than foreigners[249][250][251] and equates with the slogan "America First".[252][253]