I suggest he at least consider the Latvian Orthodox Church. The hats convey that solemn religious look you want in a faith.
“The friars hosted a celebratory reception for his family with doughnuts.”
Yeah, doughnuts over hats any day. :-)
Looked like a great article. Pity it’s behind a paywall.
Good article. He sounds like a man who is intentional and serious about his faith. I have known adults who discovered and converted to the Orthodox Church for similar reasons. Both Catholicism and Orthdoxy provide a rich intellectual,devotional and liturgical framework for living out the Christian life.
I wonder after Trump gets elected and Vance becomes a VP if he can get an audience with Pope Frankie like Pelosi and Joey.
I think Vance may be too much of a Catholic for Pope Frankie.
Last time I checked...Freedom of Religion is protected.
Unless you work for the NYT
Of course the subtext of any NYT piece on JD is going to be “Is this guy weird, or what?” A number of folks expressed befuddlement at Walz’s digs at JD’s Yale education. On one level it’s utterly bizarre coming from a party littered with prominent bigwigs (Obamas, Clintons, et al.) with Ivy League degrees. On another level, though it’s not so weird. What Walz is really doing is attacking JD’s intellectualism. There’s an anti-intellectual current in much of America, where there’s a suspicion of people who read too many books and have original ideas. And the Dems are attempting to play into that.
Kamala Harris likely hasn’t cracked open a book in the last 35 years. No one mistakes her for any sort intellectual. Like other Dem grandees (Hills Clinton & Mooch Obama come to mind), she’s a bar-exam repeater. She’s a know-nothing whose aides complain she won’t read their briefings and then bitches when she’s unprepared (which is always). Similarly, Tim Walz is one of those dumber-than-a-box-of-rocks gym coach kinda guys with a big mouth that we all remember from school.