New Orleans Saints' executives orchestrate PR blitz for church amid predatory priest list fallout
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New Orleans Saints' executives orchestrate PR blitz for church amid predatory priest list fallout

India Today  

NEW ORLEANS: 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 NFL franchise. What followed was a months-long, crisis-communications blitz orchestrated by the New Orleans Saints’ president and other top team officials, according to hundreds of internal emails obtained by The Associated Press. Among the key moments, as revealed in the Saints’ own emails: Saints executives were so involved in the church’s damage control that a team spokesman briefed his boss on a 2018 call with the city’s top prosecutor hours before the church released a list of clergymen accused of abuse. In a lengthy statement, the team criticized the media for using “leaked emails for the purpose of misconstruing a well-intended effort.” “No member of the Saints organization condones or wants to cover up the abuse that occurred in the Archdiocese of New Orleans,” the team said.

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NFL Team Helped Church A Lot With Pedophile Priest Damage Control: AP
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NFL Team Helped Church A Lot With Pedophile Priest Damage Control: AP

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING NEW ORLEANS — 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 NFL franchise. In a lengthy statement, the team criticized the media for using “leaked emails for the purpose of misconstruing a well-intended effort.” “No member …

Emails detail how the NFL's New Orleans Saints helped the local church handle fallout from sex-abuse scandal
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Emails detail how the NFL's New Orleans Saints helped the local church handle fallout from sex-abuse scandal

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Emails reveal Super Bowl host's role helping catholic church's effort to fight sex-abuse claims in New Orleans
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Emails reveal Super Bowl host's role helping catholic church's effort to fight sex-abuse claims in New Orleans

Daily Mail  

The sex-abuse scandal engulfing the Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans is again encroaching on the NFL's Saints as the team prepares to host Super Bowl LIX on Sunday. In the emails, Saints owner and Gayle Benson is seen offering up the team's senior vice president of communications to the local Archdiocese to help navigate the scandal in 2018 New Orleans' …

Takeaways from NFL emails outlining Saints’ damage control for clergy sex abuse crisis
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Takeaways from NFL emails outlining Saints’ damage control for clergy sex abuse crisis

Associated Press  

NEW ORLEANS — When New Orleans church leaders prepared to publish a list of predatory Catholic priests, they turned to a well-oiled public relations machine: the city’s NFL franchise. What came next was a crisis-communications blitz orchestrated by the New Orleans Saints’ president and other top team officials, according to hundreds of internal emails obtained by The Associated Press. Here …

NFL emails reveal extent of Saints’ damage control for clergy sex abuse crisis
1 month, 3 weeks ago

NFL emails reveal extent of Saints’ damage control for clergy sex abuse crisis

Associated Press  

NEW ORLEANS — 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 NFL franchise. In a lengthy statement, the team criticized the media for using “leaked emails for the purpose of misconstruing a well-intended effort.” “No member of the Saints …

NFL emails reveal extent of Saints’ damage control for clergy sex abuse crisis
1 month, 3 weeks ago

NFL emails reveal extent of Saints’ damage control for clergy sex abuse crisis

CNN  

AP — 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 NFL franchise. In a lengthy statement, the team criticized the media for using “leaked emails for the purpose of misconstruing a well-intended effort.” “No member of the Saints organization …

Official: Saints emails on clergy crisis should stay secret
4 years, 11 months ago

Official: Saints emails on clergy crisis should stay secret

Associated Press  

Hundreds of emails detailing the New Orleans Saints’ efforts to conduct damage control for the area’s Roman Catholic archdiocese amid its clergy sexual abuse crisis should remain shielded from the public, a court official recommended Thursday. Releasing the messages would only “embarrass or bring under public scrutiny” those who tried to help the Archdiocese of New Orleans as it sought …

Saints owner denies team had role in clergy sex abuse list
5 years, 1 month ago

Saints owner denies team had role in clergy sex abuse list

Associated Press  

The owner of the New Orleans Saints said Monday that the NFL team played no role in determining which priests would be named in the list of “credibly accused” clergy published by the area’s Roman Catholic Church. Benson’s statement acknowledged that Greg Bensel, the Saints’ senior vice president of communications, helped the Archdiocese of New Orleans “prepare for the media” …

Judge allows AP to be heard in dispute over Saints emails
5 years, 1 month ago

Judge allows AP to be heard in dispute over Saints emails

Associated Press  

NEW ORLEANS — A judge ruled Friday that The Associated Press may be heard in a court dispute over whether to release hundreds of confidential emails that detail the New Orleans Saints’ behind-the-scenes public relations work to help area Roman Catholic leaders deal with a sexual abuse crisis. Judge Ellen Hazeur of Orleans Parish Civil District Court agreed the emails …

NFL’s Saints accused of helping shape clergy sex abuse list
5 years, 1 month ago

NFL’s Saints accused of helping shape clergy sex abuse list

Associated Press  

NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Saints say they only did “minimal” public relations work on the area’s Roman Catholic sexual abuse crisis, but attorneys suing the church allege hundreds of confidential Saints emails show the team’s involvement went much further, helping to shape a list of credibly accused clergy that appears to be undercounted. Plaintiffs’ attorneys alleged in earlier …

NFL’s Saints fight to shield emails in Catholic abuse crisis
5 years, 2 months ago

NFL’s Saints fight to shield emails in Catholic abuse crisis

Associated Press  

NEW ORLEANS — 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 about two dozen men suing the church say in court …

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