ROME — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's White House press secretary, Caroline Leavitt, credits her Catholic school education with instilling pro-life values, discipline and the importance of public service.
Levitt is the youngest White House press secretary in U.S. history. I was grateful President Trump nominated her to the post this week and believed in her. She has repeatedly said that her fighting spirit and commitment to the truth came from her family life and Catholic upbringing.
“My upbringing means absolutely everything to me. It's why I'm a conservative and why I believe in the American Dream,” Levitt said in a 2021 paper. interview About the Catholic trend.
Her parents “worked hard to send me to a Catholic high school in Lawrence, Massachusetts,” she said. “Central Catholic High School was an amazing place. It taught me discipline and brought me closer to my relationship with God. It also taught me the importance of public service and giving back to the community.”
Leavitt, who says he starts each day with prayer, happened to be sharing the podcast space with J.D. Vance, who at the time had converted to Catholicism.
“Having a Catholic upbringing really shaped who I am,” she told host Father Robert McTeague. “I then continued my Catholic education through college. Thanks to the hard work of my parents and family, I am very proud to be the first in my family to earn a bachelor's degree.”
“I attended Saint Anselm College in Amherst, New Hampshire, and the values of hard work and determination were firmly ingrained in me from an early age,” she said.
“We went to work every day, and you work hard, and nothing is given in this life, everything has to be earned,” she said. “I was taught that way at a young age. Those values were really instilled and ingrained in me through my Catholic education, so I'm very grateful.”
Leavitt completed his schooling and went to Rome, Italy, where he studied abroad for a semester at John Cabot University, Italian media reported. jumped off This week.
“My faith in God sustains me,” Leavitt said in an interview. “I wake up every day and say a prayer and ask God to give me the strength I need to get through this day,” she says, which reflects her belief in the sanctity of human life. has been taken over.
“I am proudly pro-life. I truly believe that this is one of the critically important issues facing our country and the world,” she said.
“The issue of life is paramount. It's very clear in our Constitution. If there is no right to life, nothing else matters,” she said. “As a young woman, I feel like I’m in a very unique position to be able to truly communicate this issue in a way that resonates with young women across the country.”
“We need to embed a culture of reintroducing, nurturing and valuing life. Unfortunately, it's the left that is actually delivering the message on this issue,” she argued. “This is not about women's reproductive rights. It's not about women's health. It's about life and protecting it, of course.”
“Unfortunately, our society, our culture, doesn't look at the issue of life and abortion that way,” she said.
“This is an issue where we can change hearts and minds,” she argued. “We just need to be more vocal about it. And let's win the message war, because unfortunately we've lost the communication war, especially with young women and girls of my generation.”
