Vice President JD Vance’s upcoming book is set to detail his “personal journey” back to Catholicism, but the cover of his work embarrassingly appears to depict a church of a different Christian denomination.

“Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith” — announced by the veep on Tuesday and set to be released in June — features a cover that includes a church below a dreamy sky nestled somewhere in a country, hill-ish environment, seemingly an effort to bring the Vance family’s roots in Appalachia to mind.

The church in the image, as noted by The Bulwark’s Joe Perticone on Tuesday, is not so Catholic.

In fact, it depicts Mount Zion Church, a United Methodist place of worship in Elk Creek, Virginia.

The book — per a description from its publisher Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins — explores how the veep “strayed from the Christianity of his youth” before converting to Catholicism as an adult, picking up “in some ways” where his popular 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” left off.

“Vance’s choice of photo struck me as odd, given that the vice president has been outspoken about his Catholic faith,” wrote Perticone, who noted that an image of the “undeniably photogenic” church was once used in a satirical Babylon Bee article about evangelicals.

Vance’s spokesperson referred HuffPost to the book’s publisher for comment. HuffPost has reached out to HarperCollins regarding the cover.

Vance has faced criticism over how he interprets Catholic teachings since he began serving as President Donald Trump’s VP last year.

As the Trump administration kicked off its sweeping immigration crackdown, Pope Francis, without naming Vance, wrote in a February 2025 letter to U.S. bishops that the “true” interpretation of the Catholic principle “ordo amoris” (Latin for the “order of love”) stems from the parable of the Good Samaritan, or through “meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception.”

The letter appeared to be a response to Vance appearing to justify mass deportations in a Fox News interview. At the time, he suggested one must love their family, then their neighbor, then their community, and then “fellow citizens in your own country” before looking toward “the rest of the world.”

Vance would later meet with Pope Francis just before his death last April.

The pontiff’s successor, Pope Leo XIV, didn’t seem to be a fan of Vance’s order of love for others, either, per social media posts excavated last year.

Leo, the first pope to be born in the U.S., appeared to have a noticeably stiff reaction to meeting the vice president and his wife, Usha Vance, that May.

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