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The Jesuit priest who oversaw President Biden’s inaugural Mass resigned from his post as president of Santa Clara University this week after an internal investigation found he engaged in behaviors that conflicted with the Jesuit order’s “protocols and boundaries,” according to a statement issued by the school Wednesday.
O’Brien, who formerly served at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and has known the Bidens since the mid-2000s, had been president at Santa Clara since July 2019.
An investigation by the Jesuits West Province, which oversees Jesuit priests in eight states including California, found O’Brien had “engaged in behaviors, consisting primarily of conversations, during a series of informal dinners with Jesuit graduate students that were inconsistent with established Jesuit protocols and boundaries.”
Jesuit Fr. Kevin O Brien, in a 2018 file photo (NCR/Dan Morris-Young)
Jesuit Fr. Kevin O Brien has resigned as president of Santa Clara University in Northern California, after a leave of absence that began in March following unspecified allegations involving Jesuit graduate students.
O Brien, a longtime personal friend of President Joe Biden, celebrated a private Mass on the morning of the presidential inauguration at Washington s Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle.
A May 12 letter from the chairman of Santa Clara s Board of Trustees states that O Brien will enroll in a four- to six-month therapeutic outpatient program, which he has now begun, to address related personal issues, including alcohol and stress counseling.
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The Jesuit priest who presided over President Joe Biden s inaugural Mass resigned from his post as president of Santa Clara University in California after an investigation uncovered he participated in unprofessional, alcohol-influenced conversations with graduate students.
Rev. Kevin O Brien notified the Board of Trustees that he was resigning as of May 9, and the board accepted the resignation the next day, John Sobrato, the chairman of the board, announced in a statement on Wednesday. Lisa Kloppenberg is serving as acting president of Santa Clara University, a term she said will last while the board searches for a new president.