WASHINGTON
Northwest Laity for Truth
Within weeks of the commencement of the bishops’ conference in Dallas, The Seattle Times revealed that the long-time local homosexual activist Fr. David Jaeger would be subject to dismissal under the new “one-strike” policy. Predictably, Fr. Jaeger, who has enjoyed a number of leadership positions throughout his career, considers such measures to be excessive.
“Crossing a Boundary”
In a 1997 lawsuit involving convicted child molester Fr. Paul Conn, Fr. Jaeger admitted to touching eight to ten boys at Camp Don Bosco in the late 1970’s.1 Although we are assured that Fr. Jaeger is filled with regret for his past actions and realizes now that what he did was wrong, his statements indicate more the rationalizations of someone still seeking to evade accountability or downplay the seriousness of the matter. His molesting of boy campers is euphemized by Jaeger as “crossing a boundary”:
