{"id":27344,"date":"2026-04-19T09:12:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T09:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=27344"},"modified":"2026-04-19T09:12:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T09:12:48","slug":"vance-says-his-son-was-baptized-on-resurrection-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=27344","title":{"rendered":"Vance Says His Son Was Baptized on Resurrection Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vice President JD Vance announced that his second child has been baptized into the Catholic Church.\n<\/p>\n

While speaking at an\u00a0event\u00a0at the University of Georgia Tuesday hosted by the conservative activist organization Turning Point USA, Vance reflected on the life and legacy of TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated last year. Vance noted that the late conservative activist\u2019s widow, Erika, is \u201creally sad about the fact that her two little kids may never have memories of their father.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cOne of the things that you think about as a father is I want my kids to remember this moment,\u201d the father of three young children told the audience, which primarily consisted of college students.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI want my 6-year-old to remember when I took him to the zoo,\u201d Vance announced, \u201cMy 6-year-old son [Vivek] was just baptized on Easter Sunday. \u2026 I want him to remember that moment with me.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

After Vance announced his son\u2019s baptism, the crowd erupted into applause.\n<\/p>\n

The vice president previously revealed at the\u00a02025 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast\u00a0that his eldest son, 8-year-old Ewan, was baptized into the Catholic Church the week after the election, which he called \u201cthe thing that I was most excited about in November of 2024.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

As a compromise with his wife, Usha, who was raised in a Hindu family and identifies with that heritage, the couple will raise their children Catholic but \u201clet them choose the moment that they want to ultimately become baptized.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

At Tuesday\u2019s event, Vance also weighed in on President Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0criticism\u00a0of Pope Leo XIV in the wake of the pontiff\u2019s criticism of the war in Iran. The vice president rejected the idea that church leaders, both Protestant and Catholic, should \u201cpreach the Gospel\u201d and \u201cignore public policy.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually don\u2019t agree with that,\u201d he said. \u201cPart of preaching the Gospel is talking about how the Gospel applies to the issues of the day.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

At the same time, Vance stressed that \u201ceach of us has our own role.\u201d Acknowledging his role as vice president of the United States, Vance stated, \u201cThe fundamental way I understand my role is that I\u2019m trying to take the lessons, the moral truths that are \u2026 rooted in Christianity, and I\u2019m trying to apply them to a whole host of complicated real-world scenarios.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Vance contrasted his role with that of the pope, which he described as \u201cto preach the Gospel.\u201d He added that \u201cit doesn\u2019t bother me, even when I disagree with him.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a lot of respect for the pope. I like him. I admire him. I\u2019ve gotten to know him a little bit,\u201d he said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t bother me when he speaks on issues of the day, frankly, even when I disagree with how he\u2019s applying a particular principle.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Vance addressed his frustration that \u201csome of the Catholic clergy have attacked mercilessly the Trump administration on immigration,\u201d specifically the \u201cconstant idea that somehow everything that \u2026 the Trump administration does when it comes to \u2026 securing our borders is inhumane.\u201d He responded by asking, \u201cHow is it humane to allow drug traffickers and sex traffickers to bring little kids across the southern border?\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Reiterating that he does not mind when the pope weighs in on public policy, \u201ceven when there\u2019s disagreement,\u201d Vance addressed the pontiff\u2019s assertion that \u201cGod is never on the side of those who wield the sword.\u201d While expressing admiration that the pope \u201cis an advocate for peace,\u201d Vance asked, \u201cHow can you say that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword?\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWas God on the side of the Americans who liberated France from the Nazis? Was God on the side of the Americans who liberated Holocaust camps?\u201d Vance said. \u201cI certainly think the answer is yes.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Vance also discussed his forthcoming book\u00a0Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith<\/em>\u00a0and elaborated on his motivation for writing it. He recalled that after leaving the Marine Corps at age 22, \u201cI realized that I was sort of winning this game of life in one sense, and I was losing it in the way that mattered.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI was raised in a Christian household,\u201d he said. \u201cI hadn\u2019t been properly formed in my faith. And so I got to the Marine Corps, and by the time I left the Marine Corps, I was starting college, I called myself an atheist. And I kind of went through this period of being an angry atheist.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Vance said his perspective began to change after he started considering \u201cwhat actually matters in life.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not getting into Yale Law School, which I had done,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not making a lot of money. It\u2019s not credentials. It\u2019s not good jobs. It\u2019s being a good person.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThe philosophy of secular liberalism,\u201d which Vance claimed encourages people to \u201cachieve, achieve, achieve\u201d and \u201cget as many credentials, make as much money as possible,\u201d had left him \u201cfeeling empty.\u201d He contrasted that worldview with \u201cthis faith that I had discarded as a kid,\u201d which he said, \u201cactually provided a real sense of meaning and purpose.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Vance shared a conversation he had with a priest who told him, \u201cIf you think that the Christian faith is right about all these moral questions, maybe it\u2019s right because \u2026 there\u2019s a witness element to it.\u201d The priest also suggested, \u201cMaybe the fact that it\u2019s right about morality and about virtue and about sin, maybe that means it\u2019s also right about the fact that Jesus Christ was the Son of God,\u201d and \u201cmaybe it\u2019s also right that Jesus Christ died and \u2026 rose from the dead on the third day.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThat kind of got me down a pathway of where eventually I was baptized and became a very devout Christian,\u201d he said. Vance said he began writing the book in 2017 and worked on it intermittently in the years that followed before Kirk\u2019s death motivated him to finish and publish it.\n<\/p>\n

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This article was originally published at The Christian Post. Photo Credit: the White House \u2013 https:\/\/x.com\/VP\/status\/2020984290654163354.<\/em>
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