The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) is on the case of a Wheeling Jesuit U. trustee, one of three Jesuits who voted to fire Rev. Julio Giuletti SJ as president.  They want him suspended from the much larger, lay-and-Jesuit board of directors, on which he has also been serving.

WJU’s interim president, Davitt McAteer, told AP the university is pleased with Rev. Thomas F. Gleeson — he’s been a director since 2004 — and has no plans to suspend or investigate him.

Gleeson is discussed in an earlier blog.  He had been named as a defendant in a highly publicized sexual harassment suit filed by a former seminarian, John Bollard, a Jesuit in training.  Gleeson was president of the seminary, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley.  Bollard told his story on “60 Minutes.”

Aside from [Rev. Anton} Harris [S.J.] sending suggestive pictures of naked men, he said, Gleeson, . . . asked Bollard to masturbate with him. [Another Jesuit, Rev. Andrew] Sotelo, a faculty member at St. Ignatius [High, where Bollard taught], suggested that they cruise gay bars, Bollard [said].  When he reported these passes to a supervisor [the provincial], he said, he was handed a coffee cup printed with the words “No whining.”

Bollard sued, asking $1 million, claiming workplace harassment.  He won an appeals court case enabling him to do so.  The Jesuits settled without going to trial.  Gleeson, pictured here,

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meanwhile has left his post as rector of the Jesuit Center at Wernersville, PA, for a September-to-December sabbatical.  His replacement is filling in “until a certain unnamed long-term Jesuit replacement [be]comes [available], next summer.”

John Bollard: