An Old-Fashioned Religious Feud Has Broken Out on Capitol Hill

In a Friday morning conference meeting that was ostensibly about appropriations bills, Speaker Paul Ryan addressed members about a more divisive matter: his reasons for forcing out the House chaplain, the Rev. Patrick Conroy, earlier this month. Conroy’s dismissal has opened up an old-fashioned schism in the House, with Catholic members up in arms that a Protestant faction may have forced out the father.

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