‘Progressive atheistic culture’ is incompatible with Christianity: Vance

“Those same people will tell you that if a grown man takes some hormonal therapies that Big Pharma told him to take, that person will become a woman,” Vance said, referring to the progressives he says deny the communion. “It’s like, actually, you believe something that is far crazier and clearly a violation of nature.”

Vance was one of the last to meet with Pope Francis before his death, though the vice president criticized the “trite platitudes” of the Vatican diplomats who accompanied the pontiff in his recent book.

“What is great about Christianity is that it is a healthy way to find meaning,” Vance added on Gutfeld! “But if you try to find all of your meaning in politics, or you try to find all of your meaning in worldly things, I think it has a very distorting effect.” 

Catholics were formerly a major voting bloc for the Democratic Party. They began to break for Republicans following upward economic mobility and the growth of the anti-abortion movement in the latter half of the 20th century. President Donald Trump won 59% of Catholic voters in 2024, according to exit polls.

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The release of Vance’s memoir fueled speculation that the vice president is preparing for a presidential run. Apart from Trump, nearly every major Republican candidate in the party’s 2024 presidential primary released a book as part of their campaign.

Communion is Vance’s second book, after Hillbilly Elegy. Vance’s 2016 memoir reflects on his journey from Appalachia to Yale Law School. The book also catapulted the then-venture capitalist into the national eye.