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

The New Orleans Saints played a more extensive role than previously known in local church leaders’ damage control during a crisis brought on by clergy engaged in an alleged systemic campaign of sexual abuse,

As the church was engulfed in a child sex abuse scandal, Saints leadership stepped in to help handle it by offering unsolicited, free crisis PR advice.