Hundreds of internal emails obtained by The Associated Press show that the New Orleans Saints' front office played a significant role in a public relations campaign to mitigate fallout from the Catholic Church's clergy sexual abuse crisis. The emails reveal team executives' involvement in shaping the church's response, including providing guidance to the archbishop and strategizing with church leaders to manage media coverage.
Here are all the details, which The Associated Press gathered through hundreds of internal emails.As New Orleans church leaders braced for the fallout from publishing a list of predatory Catholic priests, they turned to an unlikely ally: the front office of the city’s
The team’s president, Dennis Lauscha, drafted more than a dozen questions that Archbishop Gregory Aymond should be prepared to answer as he faced reporters. In a lengthy statement, the team criticized the media for using “leaked emails for the purpose of misconstruing a well-intended effort.” The emails, sent from Saints accounts, don’t specify which clergymen were removed from the list or why. They raise fresh questions, however, about the Saints’ role in a scandal that has taken on much larger since the team waded into it, potentially in violation of the NFL’s policy against conduct “detrimental to the league.
He urged the city's newspapers to “work with” the church, reminding them the Saints and New Orleans Pelicans — the city's NBA team, also owned by Benson — had been successful thanks, in part, to their support.
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