In a two-page letter, the Rev. Patrick Conroy informed Speaker Ryan “that he gave in to pressure from the speaker’s staff when he agreed in mid-April to resign, believing that Ryan had the power to fire him, but the chaplain now believes he was pressured into the resignation for lack of cause,” the Washington Post reports.

Said Conroy: “I have never been disciplined, nor reprimanded, nor have I ever heard a complaint about my ministry during my time as House chaplain.”