J.D. Vance and Pope Leo

The battle over Augustine’s ‘Restless Heart’

For a brief moment last month, J.D. Vance was Rome’s most high-profile follower of Augustine.

The way Vance tells it, when it came to religious belief he stumbled through the early parts of his life, until, in his mid-30s, he discovered St. Augustine. “There’s just a way that Augustine is an incredibly powerful advocate for the things that the church be…