Washington D.C., May 9, 2011 / 13:49 pm
House Speaker John Boehner has proposed Father Patrick Conroy, S.J. to be the next chaplain for the U.S. House of Representatives.
If formally elected, Fr. Conroy would become the second Catholic priest to hold the position.
Ordained in 1983, Conroy has served as a parish priest in his native Washington state and served the people of the Colville Indian Reservation and the Spokane Indian Reservation, USA Today reports. He was chaplain at Georgetown University from 1990 to 1994 and from 1997 to 2003. Between those periods, he served as chaplain at Seattle University.
At present he teaches at Jesuit High school in Portland, Ore.