Saints Involved In Email Controversy

(AP)- The Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails. The messages allegedly show team executives doing public relations damage control for the area’s Roman Catholic archdiocese to help it contain the fallout from a burgeoning sexual abuse crisis. Attorneys for several men suing the church say 276 documents they obtained through discovery show the NFL team aided the Archdiocese of New Orleans in its “pattern and practice of concealing its crimes.” Saints attorneys say the archdiocese sought its advice on how to handle media attention that would come from the 2018 release of a list of more than 50 clergy members “credibly accused” of sexual abuse.