When New Orleans church leaders prepared to publish a list of predatory Catholic priests, they turned to a well-oiled public relations machine: the city's NFL franchise. What came next was a crisis-communications blitz orchestrated by the New Orleans Saints’ president and other top team officials,

Hundreds of internal emails show executives of the New Orleans Saints were far more involved than previously known in providing public relations help to Catholic church leaders as they confronted a clergy sex abuse crisis.

New reporting from multiple major news outlets has uncovered hundreds of emails documenting the New Orleans Saints' involvement in an ongoing clergy abuse crisis within the Catholic archdiocese -- a s