New Orleans Saints fight to shield emails tied to Catholic sex abuse crisis
The New Orleans Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public relations damage control for the area’s Roman Catholic archdiocese to help it contain the fallout from a burgeoning sexual abuse crisis.
Attorneys for some two dozen men suing the church say in court filings that the 276 documents they obtained through discovery show that the NFL team, whose owner is Catholic, aided the Archdiocese of New Orleans in its “pattern and practice of concealing its crimes.”