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[ad_1] Rev. Patrick J. Conroy, the House chaplain who resigned after pressure from House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) last month, rescinded his resignation Thursday. Ryan has said the reason he pressured Conroy to resign was because he didn’t believe members were being “ adequately served .” “This was not about politics or prayers, it was about pastoral services. And a number of our members felt like the pastoral services were not being adequately served, or offered,” Ryan said at an event earlier this week. But Conroy pushed back against that explanation Thursday, saying in a letter rescinding his resignation, “I have never been disciplined, nor reprimanded, nor have I ever heard a complaint about my ministry during my time as House chaplain.” After Conroy’s resignation, both Politico  and  The New York Times  reported that he was forced out after Republican members of Congress were upset with some of his prayers, including one in particular he delivered last November ahead of the pa...

[ad_1] Photo Father Patrick J. Conroy is rescinding his decision to resign as the chaplain of the House of Representatives. Credit J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press WASHINGTON — The chaplain of the House of Representatives, who was recently forced to resign by Speaker Paul D. Ryan, said Thursday that he is rescinding his decision — in effect forcing Mr. Ryan to try to fire him. Photo In his letter to the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan, Father Conroy said that Mr. Ryan’s chief of staff had said “maybe it’s time that we had a Chaplain that wasn’t a Catholic.” Father Patrick J. Conroy, a Catholic priest who has been the chaplain since 2011, wrote in a letter to Mr. Ryan that he would like to serve out his full two-year term, “and possibly beyon...