House from 2000 until his election as governor, Pence had a “reputation as a culture warrior (that) was unsullied,” according to Roll Call. He has supported causes important to evangelicals since his time as a congressman.Īs a member of the U.S. The visit “made me a hero” in the United States, he enthused to the pope. The vice president returned to his Catholic roots earlier this year, meeting Pope Francis at the Vatican before the coronavirus pandemic halted travel. Pence told The Indianapolis Star that he and his family attended Grace Evangelical Church in the 1990s, but by 2013, he told Fehrman, they were “kind of looking for a church.” He then made a “commitment to Christ” while taking part in a nondenominational Christian student group in college. Growing up in an Irish Catholic family that reportedly revered the Kennedys, Pence served as an altar boy and went to parochial school in Columbus, Indiana, according to Fehrman. RELATED: Who’s doing Christianity right?’ At Taylor University, Pence invitation highlights evangelical divide. That’s not a combination you hear every day, as journalist Craig Fehrman, who has covered the Indiana governor for Indiana Monthly, pointed out. Pence has described himself as a “born-again, evangelical Catholic.” He was raised Catholic, attended an evangelical megachurch and recently met the pope.
Here are five faith facts about Pence and how his conservative Christian beliefs have made him a polarizing figure. RELATED: The role of religion in Trump’s presidency so far: An interactive timeline Some delegates also objected to his appearance at the Southern Baptist Convention’s 2018 denominational meeting. His appearance at Notre Dame University, a Catholic school, ended in a student walkout and at Taylor University, an evangelical school, in the resignation of its president. Pence has raised eyebrows for his refusal to eat alone with a woman who is not his wife or go without her to events where alcohol is being served - a rule popularized by the late evangelist Billy Graham. congressman and governor of Indiana before that.īut his time in the White House hasn’t been without controversy, even among evangelicals. That has made Pence pretty popular with conservative evangelical Christians - not just as vice president, but also as a U.S. (RNS) - Vice President Mike Pence has described himself as “a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.”
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