Multiple members of the New Orleans Saints executive team assisted the Catholic Church with its "messaging" in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal that has rocked the area's churches in recent months, according to an Associated Press report.

Hundreds of emails from team officials were unearthed in discovery during a lawsuit, according to the AP report, and the team is going to court to fight the public release of those emails. The New Orleans sexual abuse scandal included a lawsuit by nearly two dozen men against the church. Attorneys for those men claim they acquired emails from Saints officials as part of more than 275 pages of documents that surfaced during discovery.

Among the officials, per the AP, is senior vice president of communications Greg Bensel.


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