Posted on 05/09/2018 6:10:53 PM PDT by marshmallow
WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Speaker Paul Ryan met Tuesday with the House chaplain he ousted last month, then reinstated after the chaplain complained a Ryan aide told him it might be time to put a non-Catholic in the job.
Ryan told reporters he and Jesuit Father Patrick Conroy talked about how to improve pastoral services over coffee Tuesday.
Just last month Ryan instructed top aide Jonathan Burks to demand Conroy’s resignation, saying he was dissatisfied with Conroy’s pastoral services.
Conroy said he wasn’t told of deficiencies in his performance. He sent a scalding letter to Ryan alleging Burks told him “maybe it’s time that we had a Chaplain that wasn’t a Catholic.” Conroy is a Catholic priest.
Burks denied the allegation but Ryan reversed course and reinstated Conroy. Ryan said that it would not be healthy for the House to keep battling over the chaplain.
Democrats howled when Conroy was forced out, charging that a November prayer regarding the GOP tax bill that upset many Republicans was behind the move.
Conroy had prayed for lawmakers to make sure that “there are not winners and losers under new tax laws, but benefits balanced and shared by all Americans.”
Conroy told The New York Times that shortly afterward Ryan warned Conroy to “stay out of politics.” Conroy also invited a Muslim cleric last year to give the opening prayer, a move that Democrats say may have upset GOP conservatives.
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Worthless gutless rino paul rino ryan is a diagrace. What a establishment dirtbag. This scum priest should hve been fired for injecting his personal political beliefs into his work. Go back to helping illegal aliens and child molesters father. Ryan needs to permanently go away soon.
Confirming Ryan as a member of phylum coelenterata.
Everything you say is true, but in Ryan’s defense the dude is a Jesuit.
Hahahaha. Jesuits are not to be respectd
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