This included the Saints organization being instrumental in assisting the Archdiocese with public relations, organizing a strategy for damage control, as well as using its considerable sway to ensure names were left off a list released by the church of alleged abusers of children.

The Saints, whose owner is friends with New Orleans’s archbishop, fought for years to keep the emails secret.

A trove of emails shows the team’s leadership using their influence in New Orleans to aid the archdiocese, including writing talking points for media interviews.

Hundreds of internal emails show executives of the New Orleans Saints were far more involved than previously known in providing public relations help to Catholic church leaders as they confronted a clergy sex abuse crisis.

Emails obtained by New York Times and Associated Press reveal extent of Saints' aid in Catholic church's response to sex-abuse scandal from 2018-2019.

New reporting from multiple major news outlets has uncovered hundreds of emails documenting the New Orleans Saints' involvement in an ongoing clergy abuse crisis within the Catholic archdiocese -- a s

A huge new expose has revealed the extent to which the Saints worked to cover up the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandals.