Posted on 05/03/2018 2:37:32 PM PDT by wmileo
The Rev. Patrick Conroy, chaplain of the House of Representatives, said in a letter on Thursday that he was rescinding his resignation amid his high-profile ousting by House Speaker Paul Ryan.
The Associated Press reported that Conroy wrote in a two-page letter to Ryan, the retiring Wisconsin Republican, that he has never "heard a complaint about my ministry" as House chaplain.
Democrats have expressed outrage over Ryan’s decision to push Conroy out of the job.
Ryan has told fellow Republicans that he fired the House chaplain, a Roman Catholic priest from the Jesuit order, after complaints from members that he wasn't doing a very good job.
"He had a number of complaints that the chaplain was not meeting the pastoral needs of the members in general," said Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo.
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This has got to be the stupidest thread I have ever read. I am disappointed with many of my fellow freepers who make such disgusting, infantile comments.
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