JD Vance’s Upcoming Book Already Features 1 Awkward Blunder | EUROtoday

Vice President JD Vance’s upcoming ebook is about to element his “personal journey” again to Catholicism, however the cowl of his work embarrassingly seems to depict a church of a special Christian denomination.

“Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith” — introduced by the veep on Tuesday and set to be launched in June — contains a cowl that features a church beneath a dreamy sky nestled someplace in a rustic, hill-ish setting, seemingly an effort to convey the Vance household’s roots in Appalachia to thoughts.

The church within the picture, as famous by The Bulwark’s Joe Perticone on Tuesday, just isn’t so Catholic.

In truth, it depicts Mount Zion Church, a United Methodist place of worship in Elk Creek, Virginia.

The ebook — per an outline from its writer Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins — explores how the veep “strayed from the Christianity of his youth” earlier than changing to Catholicism as an grownup, selecting up “in some ways” the place his well-liked 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” left off.

“Vance’s choice of photo struck me as odd, given that the vice president has been outspoken about his Catholic faith,” wrote Perticone, who famous that a picture of the “undeniably photogenic” church was as soon as utilized in a satirical Babylon Bee article about evangelicals.

Vance’s spokesperson referred HuffPost to the ebook’s writer for remark. HuffPost has reached out to HarperCollins relating to the duvet.

Vance has confronted criticism over how he interprets Catholic teachings since he started serving as President Donald Trump’s VP final yr.

As the Trump administration kicked off its sweeping immigration crackdown, Pope Francis, with out naming Vance, wrote in a February 2025 letter to U.S. bishops that the “true” interpretation of the Catholic precept “ordo amoris” (Latin for the “order of love”) stems from the parable of the Good Samaritan, or by means of “meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception.”

The letter gave the impression to be a response to Vance showing to justify mass deportations in a Fox News interview. At the time, he instructed one should love their household, then their neighbor, then their group, and then “fellow citizens in your own country” earlier than trying towards “the rest of the world.”

Vance would later meet with Pope Francis simply earlier than his demise final April.

The pontiff’s successor, Pope Leo XIV, didn’t appear to be a fan of Vance’s order of affection for others, both, per social media posts excavated final yr.

Leo, the primary pope to be born within the U.S., appeared to have a noticeably stiff response to assembly the vp and his spouse, Usha Vance, that May.