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One major newsroom focused on religious conversion, while another offered lots and lots of politics
One of the world’s most important newsrooms just offered a finely detailed profile of Catholic convert J.D. Vance and, imagine this, the feature focused on the emotions and ideas that led him to swim the Tiber. This included his intellectual and spiritual attraction to the work of St. Augustine, one of the most important minds in all of Western culture.
Yes, there were political implications linked to this decision since the senator is, after all, the GOP candidate for vice president.
Another powerful newsroom produced a feature about Vance’s faith and the emphasis was on politics, politics and more politics, including lots of material about Vance and a choir of dangerous, authoritarian Catholic thinkers. Has Vance identified with this group? No, but he has said interesting things about some ideas voiced by a few of those folks. Oh, and members of this mysterious group have lots of complex disagreements with each other about doctrine and politics.
Which report was from the Associated Press and which was from the New York Times?
Continued below.
Crossroads -- The ideas that led J.D. Vance to swim the Tiber
One major newsroom focused on religious conversion, while another offered lots and lots of politics
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