Great news, Heidi! All congrats and look forward to reading your great pieces in Commonweal!

But it is important to note that it would be an entirely Catholic thing for Vance to have said: "I love my wife exactly the way she is and with the convictions that she has. I deeply respect those convictions and recognize God's loving mystery in her life as in mine."

JD Vance thinks what he does about what he would like his wife to become. I'm not sure it's generally speaking such a good idea to judge what a husband or wife thinks about such matters: Marriage is a very delicate and complex matter.

At Vatican II, the church taught: "Those also can attain to salvation who through no fault of their own do not know the Gospel of Christ or His Church, yet sincerely seek God and moved by grace strive by their deeds to do His will as it is known to them through the dictates of conscience."

How different it would sound if the news report instead read something like: " he is one of the most visible of a generation of political leaders educated at colleges where students could study aspects of Western history that in previous decades were rarely included in course offerings."