It is always OK to invite Indiana's favorite son to Notre Dame and the pro-lifers certainly won't object because Pence says all the right things.  Whether any politician believes this stuff is another matter.

Like any narcissist, he believes that he is the victim - even though his chief adviser made his bones by pandering to Nazis.

Hannah Arendt would call this the banality of evil.  He is getting better support in writing his speech, but he is still being coached in policy by very scary people.  We will be debating whether or not he is an empty shirt for the next century.