{"id":286154,"date":"2018-04-27T07:51:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T11:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=286154"},"modified":"2018-04-27T07:51:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T11:51:49","slug":"a-modest-proposal-choose-a-catholic-deacon-for-the-next-house-chaplain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2018\/04\/a-modest-proposal-choose-a-catholic-deacon-for-the-next-house-chaplain\/","title":{"rendered":"A modest proposal: choose a Catholic deacon for the next House chaplain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Why not?<\/p>\n

Meantime, this report<\/a><\/strong> indicates they are searching for a married man for the job:<\/p>\n

\n

Rep.\u00a0Mark Walker<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(R-N.C.), one of the leaders of the committee searching for a replacement for the ousted House chaplain, said the next spiritual leader of the House should be someone with a family who can better relate and counsel lawmakers with spouses and children.<\/p>\n

Father Patrick Conroy,\u00a0who was forced\u00a0<\/a>out by Speaker\u00a0Paul Ryan<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(R-Wis.), is celibate by virtue of his Catholic faith.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking for somebody who has a little age, that has adult children, that kind of can connect with the bulk of the body here, Republicans and Democrats who are going through, back home the wife, the family \u2026 that has some counseling experience \u2026 because what\u2019s needed in the body here is people who can sit down with different members, male, female, Democrat, Republican, and just talk about what it is kind of to be up here,\u201d Walker, a Southern Baptist minister and chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee, told reporters Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sounds like a deacon, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

Read on.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why not? Meantime, this report indicates they are searching for a married man for the job: Rep.\u00a0Mark Walker\u00a0(R-N.C.), one of the leaders of the committee searching for a replacement for the ousted House chaplain, said the next spiritual leader of the House should be someone with a family who can better relate and counsel lawmakers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":205873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[261,11171],"class_list":["post-286154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deacons","tag-congress","tag-deacons"],"yoast_head":"\nA modest proposal: choose a Catholic deacon for the next House chaplain<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Why not? 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