The “Perk” of Home Masses: JD Vance and the Privatization of the Most Holy Sacrifice
EWTN News portal reports that U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance discussed their family’s Mass attendance practices, including the “perk” of having priests celebrate Mass at home due to security concerns. Vance, who converted to Catholicism, also promoted his memoir “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith.” This article, while seemingly innocuous, reveals a profound misunderstanding and trivialization of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, reducing a sacred obligation and the source and summit of Christian life to a matter of personal convenience, “creature comfort,” and logistical negotiation, thereby reflecting the very essence of modernist indifferentism and the privatization of faith that the pre-conciliar Church unequivocally condemned.


