JD Vance Tells Glenn About Iran, the Pope & His Faith Journey | Guest: Vice President JD Vance | 6/16/26

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**Glenn Beck** (1:54)
Hello America! Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. It is Tuesday.
Want to get right to our guest because it is the Vice President of the United States. It's JD Vance. You got to talk to him about many, many things, but he has a new book out called Communion, Finding My Way Back to Faith, which I think is a very important book at this time especially. Even if you're just trying to understand the Vice President, who may become our next President of the United States, at least we'll be running for it.
Also, the times in which we live, get to that and the Iranian things here in just a minute. Let me introduce the 50th Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, in his new book Communion, Finding My Way Back to Faith. JD, you and I, when I'm reading your book, we have an awful lot in common. Your mother, I'm a big fan of Hillbilly Elegy. I mean, what an amazing story. Your mother was an addict. My mother was an addict. Your mom had a happy ending. My mom did not. Your father, you were estranged when you died. It was a lot more severe than mine. I was estranged with my father when he died.
And there was so many things that add complexities to your life when you go through all of that. And I hope we have a chance to have a longer interview to kind of get into that. But I want to start with a part of the book where you talk about where you committed to Christ. You were in a cathedral and you noticed that everything was kind of falling apart. The whole world was falling apart and you committed. Can you talk a little bit about the moment you chose to commit?

**JD Vance** (3:37)
Yeah, Glenn. So, this is back in the summer of I think 2018
And if you remember at the time was, you know, I eventually became a baptized Catholic and very bad time for the Catholic Church. There was a very bad sex abuse scandal that was getting reported on in Pennsylvania. And you know, there was just this sense that, yeah, I was curious in Christ. I was curious about Christianity, but I wasn't yet ready to commit. And I was there with my son, actually. I was in this cathedral. It was beautiful. It was completely empty. And I felt this kind of sense of despair at first because, you know, no one was there. In this beautiful old church, no one was there. There was nobody praying. It felt almost lifeless.
And then there was just this beautiful sort of array of light that came through the stained-glass windows. And it was the perfect time of day to where, you know, you could see the dust and the light. And I just, I felt this sense. It's difficult to explain. I'm not saying it's rational.
But I felt this sense that, you know, yes, the church is going through a tough spot, but things are going to be okay. And I belong here. And that was sort of the moment that I decided, you know what, for all of my belly aching and back and forth, and here are the reasons why to do it and not to do it, like, this is my home, and I'm going to try to make this home a successful place as possible and contribute as much as I can. And that's what I did. That was the moment I made the decision.