{"id":32224,"date":"2025-02-03T13:44:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T13:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/crisis-communications-emails-show-how-nfls-saints-and-nbas-pelicans-helped-new-orleans-church-spin-abuse-scandal\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T13:44:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T13:44:20","slug":"crisis-communications-emails-show-how-nfls-saints-and-nbas-pelicans-helped-new-orleans-church-spin-abuse-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/crisis-communications-emails-show-how-nfls-saints-and-nbas-pelicans-helped-new-orleans-church-spin-abuse-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Crisis communications\u2019: emails show how NFL\u2019s Saints and NBA\u2019s Pelicans helped New Orleans church spin abuse scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unearthed emails detail how the sports franchises\u2019 owner and PR team counseled archdiocese on how to respond to unfolding clergy-abuse case<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/03\/new-orleans-clergy-abuse-involved\">Here are prominent people named in the Saints clergy-abuse emails<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2025\/feb\/03\/new-orleans-clergy-abuse-emails\">What Saints and church officials said, and what their emails say<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/03\/new-orleans-clergy-abuse-takeaways\">The Saints clergy-abuse emails: five takeaways from our investigation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>High-level executives with the NFL\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/new-orleans-saints\">New Orleans Saints<\/a> football team and the NBA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/new-orleans-hornets\">Pelicans<\/a> basketball team had a deeper role than previously known in connection with a list of priests and deacons faced with credible allegations of child molestation while the clergymen worked with their city\u2019s Roman Catholic archdiocese, the Guardian and reporting partner WWL Louisiana can reveal.<\/p>\n<p>According to highly sensitive emails that were obtained by the outlets, one top executive even described a conversation with the New Orleans district attorney at the time that allowed them to remove clergy names from the list \u2013 though the clubs deny their official participated in that discussion, and the prosecutor back then vehemently denies he would ever have weighed in on the list\u2019s content.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2025\/feb\/03\/new-orleans-clergy-abuse-investigation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unearthed emails detail how the sports franchises\u2019 owner and PR team counseled archdiocese on how to respond to unfolding clergy-abuse case Here are prominent people named in the Saints clergy-abuse emails What Saints and church officials said, and what their emails say The Saints clergy-abuse emails: five takeaways from our investigation High-level executives with the &#8230; 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