A The Guardian investigation reveals extensive and previously undisclosed involvement by high-level executives from the New Orleans Saints and Pelicans, professional sports teams, in managing the public relations fallout of the Catholic clergy abuse scandal.
Yet what remained hidden until now are more than 300 emails, amounting to more than 700 pages, many emblazoned with the NFL and NBA logos, showing that the teams’ officials were more involved with some of the church’s operations than they ever admitted. They expose how extensively the sports teams’ leaders intervened in their local church’s most unyielding scandal.