2 days ago · 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 ... Close relationship between Saints and the Catholic Church. Benson and Aymond, the archbishop, have been confidants for years. ... The Associated Press is an ...

2 days ago · 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 ...

2 days ago · 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 ...

2 days ago · Leaders of one of New Orleans’s other major institutions, the N.F.L.’s New Orleans Saints, were concerned. Gayle Benson, the team’s owner, is a devout Catholic, major church benefactor and ...

2 days ago · Investigations by the New York Times and Associated Press uncovered more than 300 emails related to the Saints' involvement in the church's response to sexual abuse accusations against the New ...

Hundreds of newly disclosed emails between the New Orleans Saints and the Archdiocese of New Orleans detail the extent to which two of the team’s top executives helped to shape the church’s public relations strategy around the clergy sex abuse crisis as the scandal was coming to light six years ago. The emails, which were obtained by WWL Louisiana, The Associated Press, The New York Times ...

2 days ago · According to The Associated Press, Bensel urged the city's two newspapers at the time, The Times-Picayune and The New Orleans Advocate, to “work with” the church, telling them, “We need to ...

2 days ago · Hundreds of internal emails show New Orleans Saints executives were far more involved in providing public relations help to Catholic church leaders as they confronted a clergy sex abuse crisis.

2 days ago · NFL’s Saints helped Catholic church amid abuse crisis, emails show ... earlier Monday by the Associated Press, the New York Times ... to hold a role with a New Orleans-area church until the ...

2 days ago · A bombshell new report has laid out exactly how much the New Orleans Saints organization worked with the Catholic Church to help cover up and control the narrative around sex abuse scandals.