Catholicism

In the novel, Jake often questions his Catholicism but still enters churches when the weight of the world catches up with him.

His journey — from a nominal Protestant upbringing through atheism, to converting to Catholicism in 2019 — and frequent appeals to “Christian values” position him firmly with the GOP’s religious-right base.

Since Vance's conversion to Catholicism five years later, he has frequently spoken about how his faith has informed his conservative political views.

After being inspired at a bar mitzvah he attended about 15 years ago, Sonnier decided he wanted to convert from Catholicism to Judaism.

He had necessarily converted to Catholicism the year before to get ahead in 1880s antisemitic Vienna, and in his Second Symphony gave what for him was a new, desperate notion: Give heaven a whirl.