NFL team helping to hide Catholic abuse
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Church backs NFL team trying to keep email private
Feb 25, 2020
(20 Feb 2020) An attorney for New Orleans' Roman Catholic archdiocese is strongly defending the New Orleans Saints' public-relations help in dealing with the clergy sex abuse crisis.
He says the legal effort to release emails between them is aimed at trying to shame those "who had the audacity" to back the church.
The remarks came in a court hearing Thursday on the Saints' request to keep those emails confidential. A special master was not expected to rule immediately.
The hearing comes amid claims the Saints joined the church in a pattern of concealing sexual abuse — an allegation the team denies.
Attorneys for some two dozen men suing the church say the emails show team officials had a say in deciding which priests the archdiocese named on a 2018 list of dozens of "credibly accused" clergy members.
An Associated Press analysis found that roster was undercounted by at least 20 names.