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	Pelosi Reconsiders Support for Jesuit House Chaplain Nominee Catholic Culture May 11, 2011 http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=10289 A spokesman for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that she is reconsidering her support for a Jesuit nominee for House chaplain after learning that the Oregon Jesuit province, to which the nominee belongs, recently made a record sex-abuse settlement. Pelosi’s spokesman charged that Speaker John Boehner, who nominated Father Patrick Conroy for the position, never told Pelosi about the settlement. A spokesman for Boehner countered that “the settlement is public knowledge.” Father Patrick Conroy, the nominee, has never been accused of abuse or of covering up abuse. On the contrary, in 1986 he informed Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen of Seattle that another priest had made a “homosexual pass” at a young teenage boy, “momentarily molesting him.” Archbishop Hunthausen allowed the priest to remain in ministry.
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