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PELOSI NOW BACKS JESUIT—BUT DeFAZIO DOESN’T
May 12, 2011
Yesterday, Rep. Nancy Pelosi expressed her concerns about voting for Father Patrick Conroy, selected by House Speaker John Boehner to be the new House Chaplain. She cited the priest’s association with the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus, which has been the subject of sex abuse claims. The Catholic League criticized her objections yesterday. Now she says she is satisfied with his nomination. In a new development, Rep. Peter DeFazio is raising questions about Conroy.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows:
Rep. Pelosi is ascribing her change of heart to the responses provided by Father Conroy to questions posed by her office. Pelosi’s staff is now saying that this “additional information” accounts for her new position. This reply, however, strains credulity.
Since Father Conroy’s bona fides were never the issue, what changed? What could he possibly say, or provide in the way of “additional information,” that would change Pelosi’s mind? After all, her reservations about the priest had nothing to do with him, but with his associations.
catholicleague.org/release.php?id=2149
May 12, 2011
Yesterday, Rep. Nancy Pelosi expressed her concerns about voting for Father Patrick Conroy, selected by House Speaker John Boehner to be the new House Chaplain. She cited the priest’s association with the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus, which has been the subject of sex abuse claims. The Catholic League criticized her objections yesterday. Now she says she is satisfied with his nomination. In a new development, Rep. Peter DeFazio is raising questions about Conroy.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows:
Rep. Pelosi is ascribing her change of heart to the responses provided by Father Conroy to questions posed by her office. Pelosi’s staff is now saying that this “additional information” accounts for her new position. This reply, however, strains credulity.
Since Father Conroy’s bona fides were never the issue, what changed? What could he possibly say, or provide in the way of “additional information,” that would change Pelosi’s mind? After all, her reservations about the priest had nothing to do with him, but with his associations.
catholicleague.org/release.php?id=2149