Religion has not so far featured significantly in the US presidential campaign – as opposed to abortion, which is a moral rather than religious issue – but there is, of course, a Catholic in this contest: JD Vance, the Republican vice-presidential nominee.

Mr Vance was received into the Church in 2019 on the excellent basis that he needed grace. He reflected in the following year, in an article for The Lamp magazine, that what he had been looking for was a worldview outside the left-right political divide, which was “obsessed with virtue, but cognisant of the fact that virtue is formed in the context of a broader community; sympathetic with the meek and poor of the world without treating them primarily as victims; protective of children and families and with the things necessary to ensure they thrive. And above all: a faith centred around a Christ who demands perfection of us even as He loves unconditionally and forgives easily". And he found that in the Catholic Church.