Mike Pence Religion

Mike Pence - Religion

What is Mike Pence's religion?

The religion of Vice President Mike Pence has raised eyebrows for many years. Mike Pence calls himself an "Evangelical Catholic," an oxymoron since "Evangelical" means of Evangile, a French word that means of the "Gospel," while "Catholic" means of the religion of Roman Catholicism.

Does Mike Pence's claimed religion reflect a spiritual tug of war within, a desire to please his mother, a political strategy to draw both Catholic and Evangelical votes, or something else? The answer is enmeshed in Mike Pence's religious journey.

Mike Pence's deeply religious Irish Catholic parents Ed and Nancy had five sons and one daughter. All of them attended St. Columba Catholic Church in Columbus, Indiana. All children attended its parochial school, and all sons served as alter boys at the church, which changed its name to St. Bartholomew Catholic Church in 1997.

Mike Pence "walked away" from his religion in high school, surmising that faith "was for other people" (see Mike Pence's Christian Testimony), then met some of those people during his freshman year at Indiana's Hanover College, which has Presbyterian roots:

"I began to meet young men and women who talked about having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and while I cherish my Catholic upbringing and the foundation that it poured in my faith, that had not been a part of my experience." - Mike Pence, Christian Broadcasting Network, February 10, 2010

That "a personal relationship with Jesus Christ... had NOT" (emphasis added) been a part of his "Catholic upbringing" and "the foundation" of his "faith" is a telling admission about the religion of Roman Catholicism.

Those Hanover students invited Mike Pence to a Christian gathering on Tuesday nights, and then to a Christian music festival in Wilmore, Kentucky, where he says he "gave" his life to Jesus in the spring of 1978 (see Mike Pence's Christian Testimony).

So, did Mike Pence become a born again Christian in 1978?

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