JD Vance eviscerates Harris work in most anti-Catholic administration in living memory

Republican vice presidential hopeful JD Vance has accused Vice President Kamala Harris of harboring bias against Roman Catholics in a fiery op-ed targeting working-class churchgoers in states like Pennsylvania.“In the White House, Ms.

Harris has been an integral part of the most anti-Catholic administration in living memory — ironic given President Joe Biden’s Catholic faith,” Vance, 40, wrote in a scathing piece published Thursday by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.“As a Catholic myself, I have a personal investment in ending this consistent pattern of anti-Catholic policies and actions,” the senator from Ohio later added.“But even non-Catholics and nonreligious Americans should be alarmed.”The op-ed appeared less than a week after Harris, 60, opted not to attend the Archdiocese of New York’s Al Smith Dinner for charity — making her the first major party nominee to skip the white-tie event in 40 years.Meanwhile, in an interview with NBC News that aired Tuesday night, Harris signaled opposition to any exemption on religious grounds to the codification of abortion rights nationwide, saying: “I don’t think we should be making concessions when we’re talking about a fundamental freedom to make decisions about your own body.”Just under a third of Pittsburgh residents are Catholics, according to a Pew Research study, while almost a quarter of Pennsylvanians practice the faith, according to census data.In his op-ed, Vance recalled how then-Sen.

Harris in 2018 grilled federal district court nominee Brian Buescher over his membership in the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organization.At one point, Harris, now 60, asked Buescher: “Were you aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed a woman’s right to choose when you joined the organization?”“Harris suggested that Judge Buescher was unfit to serve on the bench because of his Catholic faith,” Vance wrote.

“Any first-year law student would tell you that her line of questioning qu...