JD Vance’s Naturalist Gospel: Political Utility Usurps Christ’s Kingship
The National Catholic Register — flagship organ of the conciliar sect’s “conservative” wing — publishes a laudatory review of Vice President JD Vance’s memoir *Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith*, penned by its managing editor Jonathan Liedl. The article presents Vance’s narrative of pragmatic conversion and his thesis that Christianity should function as America’s “creedal ethos,” informing social values and economic policy through political intervention. This is not a call to the Social Reign of Christ the King but a baptism of Christian nationalism, reducing the supernatural order to a cultural utility for civilizational maintenance. The review itself, by omitting the supernatural finality of the Faith and treating grace as a psychological resource, exposes the thoroughgoing naturalism of the neo-church’s intellectual class.