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The Associated Press reports:
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 followed was a months-long, crisis-communications blitz orchestrated by the New Orleans Saints’ president and other top team officials, according to hundreds of internal emails obtained by The Associated Press.
The records, which the Saints and church had long sought to keep out of public view, reveal team executives played a more extensive role than previously known in a public relations campaign to mitigate fallout from the clergy sexual abuse crisis. The emails shed new light on the Saints’ foray into a fraught topic far from the gridiron, a behind-the-scenes effort driven by the team’s devoutly Catholic owner who has long enjoyed a close relationship with the city’s embattled archbishop.
Read the full article. There is SO much more, including that lawyers for the team got to review the archdiocese’s secret list of pedophile priests. Also, the team’s president drafted a list of questions that that the archbishop would likely face from local reporters.
We’ve been watching the NOLA Archdiocese for years.
In September 2023, the Archdiocese announced it was selling millions in church property to settle abuse lawsuits.
In 2022, it was reported that the FBI was investigating the New Orleans Archdiocese for molestation coverups going back decades.
In 2021, the DOJ announced that the Archdiocese agreed to pay $1 million for falsifying FEMA claims related to Hurricane Katrina.
Archbishop Gregory Aymond first appeared on JMG in 2013 when he ruled that Catholics can eat alligator meat during Lent because alligators quality as fish.
In March 2021, Aymond urged local Catholics to refuse COVID vaccines because they were developed from fetal cells.
In 2020, his archdiocese declared bankruptcy in a move that some say was meant to shield church assets from abuse settlements.
Later in 2020, Aymond sprinkled “holy water” over New Orleans from a World War II biplane in order to protect the city from COVID.
Also in 2020, Aymond held a ceremonial burning of the altar upon which a local priest videotaped his threeway with two hired dominatrices.
BREAKING: NFL emails reveal extent of Saints’ damage control for clergy sex abuse crisis
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