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New Orleans Saints fight to shield emails in Catholic abuse crisis
Posted on 1/24/20 at 9:21 am
Posted on 1/24/20 at 9:21 am
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — 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 filings that the 276 documents they obtained through discovery show that the NFL team, whose owner is devoutly Catholic, aided the Archdiocese of New Orleans in its “pattern and practice of concealing its crimes.”
“Obviously, the Saints should not be in the business of assisting the Archdiocese, and the Saints’ public relations team is not in the business of managing the public relations of criminals engaged in pedophilia,” the attorneys wrote in a court filing. “The Saints realize that if the documents at issue are made public, this professional sports organization also will be smearing itself.”
Saints attorneys, in court papers, disputed any suggestion that the team helped the church cover up crimes, calling such claims “outrageous.” They further said that the emails, exchanged in 2018 and 2019, were intended to be private and should not be “fodder for the public.” The archdiocese is also fighting the release of the emails.
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This post was edited on 1/24/20 at 9:22 am
Posted on 1/24/20 at 9:24 am to JBeam
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Obviously, the Saints should not be in the business of assisting the Archdiocese,
I just like reading that aloud
Posted on 1/24/20 at 9:25 am to JBeam
Wtf were the saints thinking?
Posted on 1/24/20 at 9:26 am to JBeam
moved
This post was edited on 1/24/20 at 9:34 am
Posted on 1/24/20 at 9:27 am to Fun Bunch
This is like peak Louisiana politics
Posted on 1/24/20 at 9:37 am to JBeam
anyone who still tithes to the RC church is a fricking idiot
Posted on 1/24/20 at 9:39 am to JBeam
That’s gonna be a yikes from me
Posted on 1/24/20 at 9:42 am to JBeam
These offseasons are becoming a killer on my teams.
Posted on 1/24/20 at 9:45 am to JBeam
Regardless of the outcome, whatever bad shite bad people did needs to be exposed, saints damned or not.
Posted on 1/24/20 at 9:46 am to JBeam
The NFC South is becoming the B1G of the NFL
Posted on 1/24/20 at 10:03 am to JBeam
As a saints, Astros, and rockets fan..I just can’t win
Posted on 1/24/20 at 10:06 am to JBeam
These pedophile priests and those who cover up for them deserve to swing from a tree. The NFL needs to take action on this, there really arent many things worse than child rape much less helping cover it up.
Posted on 1/24/20 at 10:07 am to JukeLeft
Its important that Gayle and the Saints protect the NO Archdiocese from credible child diddling allegations.
How would Catholic charities keep receiving $3,000 for every African Muslim refugee they bring into our country if their credibility is shot on child abuse scandals? The Lutheran charities would absolutely clean up and have all the Muslim relocation fees to themselves.
How would Catholic charities keep receiving $3,000 for every African Muslim refugee they bring into our country if their credibility is shot on child abuse scandals? The Lutheran charities would absolutely clean up and have all the Muslim relocation fees to themselves.
This post was edited on 1/24/20 at 10:08 am
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