JUST IN: House Chaplain RESCINDS his resignation despite Ryan’s request…

by The Right Scoop

Well it looks like the House Chaplain who is a Jesuit priest is fighting back over Speaker Ryan’s request that he resign.

Here’s more from CNN:

The Rev. Pat Conroy, the chaplain at the US House of Representatives, has rescinded his resignation in a letter, obtained by CNN, following a week’s worth of lawmakers from both parties questioning House Speaker Paul Ryan’s request that Conroy step down.

“At this time, and upon advice of counsel, I herby retract and rescind said resignation for the reasons that follow,” Conroy writes in the letter dated Thursday and addressed to Ryan.

Conroy, a Jesuit priest, resigned April 15 after he spent nearly seven years praying at the outset of House sessions. He wrote two versions of his resignation letter, which were also obtained by CNN from a congressional source. In the first version, he wrote that Ryan should consult with his chief of staff on a resignation date, but the second version stated his last day would be May 24.

He originally resigned because Ryan asked him too. But Ryan never gave him a specific reason and there were rumors about a prayer he said that may have gotten under the skin of Republicans.

Here’s the chaplain’s letter if you want to click and read it:


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