Congress Member Joe Crowley (click here) (D-Queens, the Bronx) took to the House Floor on April 27 to call for the creation of a select committee to investigate the reasons why Speaker Ryan essentially fired the House of Representatives Chaplain, Father Pat Conroy. Crowley said, “According to reports, Speaker Ryan demanded Father Conroy resign because of a prayer he led on the House Floor during the debate on the Republican tax bill, where Conroy said that Congress should consider all Americans, including the poor, in the legislation. Conroy, who was selected by former Republican Speaker John Boehner and elected by the entire House, has served as Chaplain for 7 years. This is the first time in the history of the US House of Representatives that a chaplain has been fired....
The spiritual leader of the USA House is supposed to remind Congress of it's moral content and necessary obligation to the poor. It is in the spiritual job description at the ordination of Reverend Conroy. The spiritual leader of the US Congress is not a political cheerleader.
The attacks upon priests in their missionary work are well known to most Catholic communities. It starts exactly like this:
"Why Jesuits are troublemakers: Father Patrick Conroy is a part of a proud tradition." (click here)
Reverend Conroy is not a PART, he is a priest. Pope Francis is a Jesuit. The Jesuit ORDER is in celebration of the life of St. Ignatius Loyola.
St. Ignatius Loyola (click here) was born in 1491, one of 13 children of a family of minor nobility in northern Spain. As a young man Ignatius Loyola was inflamed by the ideals of courtly love and knighthood and dreamed of doing great deeds.
But in 1521 Ignatius was gravely wounded in a battle with the French. While recuperating, Ignatius Loyola experienced a conversion. Reading the lives of Jesus and the saints made Ignatius happy and aroused desires to do great things. Ignatius realized that these feelings were clues to God’s direction for him....
I do not want to hear one more foul word against Reverend Conroy, the order under which he was ordained or any other lies.
NO MORE HATRED OF CATHOLIC PRIESTS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
