New Orleans -New Orleans church leaders published a looted Catholic priest's list, so they were supported for radioactive drops, so they are unlikely to be there, that is, the NFL franchise front office of the city. I turned my eyes.
Hundreds of internal e -mail obtained by the AP communication continued for several months of crisis communication, organized by New Orleans President Saints and other top team officials.
The record that the saint and the church have been leaving for the long time from the public's field of view is a team executive than previously known in a public relations campaign to reduce radioactive drops from the crisis of sexual abuse of saint. Revealed that it played a wider role. The e -mail has shown a new light for the saint to enter the difficult topic far away from the grid iron. This is a background work that is driven by the owner of a respectable Dev Catholic Catholic, who has long enjoyed a close relationship with the city's Great Bishop.
They also indicated that various New Orleans' institutions, from the federal judge sitting to the local media, gathered around the church leader at an important moment.
In an important moment, as it was revealed in the email of the saints:
-Stinz executives were very involved in church damage management, so the spokesman of the team said a few hours before the church was published a list of clergy accused of abuse. I explained to my boss in the call of the year. The Spokesman said from the list, “I have allowed a specific person to take away.”
-The team's official was the first to see the list outside the church. The disclosure of these names invited a civil claim to the church and attracted attention from the federal and state law execution agencies.
-Dennis Rausha, the president of the team, has raised more than dozens of questions that Gregory Aimond, the Great Bishop of Gregory, should be ready to answer when playing against a reporter.
-Greg Bencel, a senior vice president in charge of Saints, provides a fly -up date to Lausha for local media interviews, suggesting that all churches and team leaders are in the same team. “He is fine,” said Benzell, who told the reporter that he was committing the church to address the crisis. “That's our message,” Bencel added.
The e -mail obtained by the AP sharply guarantee that the saint gave fans to fans about public relations guidance five years ago that they had only provided “minimal” support to the church. 。 The team went to court to maintain it Internal email is a secret。
“I don't like this,” said D-NEW ORLEANS's Mandie Landry. “There is no reason to go to these lengths to protect the growing man who rape the child, as a resident of New Orleans, Catholic, and all of them should be as terrifying in the claim. It was.
Last week, the saints told AP that partnership was a past. E -mail covers the one -year period ending in July 2019. Rape a 8 -year -old boy。
In a long statement, the team criticized the media for using an e -mail leaked for the purpose of misunderstanding intentional efforts.
“The members of the saint organization do not want to tolerate or hide abuse in the New Orleans Bishop,” said the team. “It's a terrible fact that the abuse has occurred.”
The team's reaction was almost useless to calm the anger of survivors of the clergy of sexual abuse.
“We felt that we were betrayed by the organization,” said Kevin Bourgeois, the owner of the former Saints Season Ticket, who was abused by the priest in the 1980s. “I come to wonder if other secrets are being reserved. I got angry, hurt, and had trauma again.”
E -mail clarifies the range of help
After AP first reported about the alliance in early 2020, Gale Benson, the owner of Sainz, Rejected A person who is “associated with our organization” on a list of pediatric priests “made a recommendation or have opinions.”
The saints repeatedly denied in a statement on Saturday, and the saint employees said, “There is no responsibility to add or delete a name from the list.” The team said to the list, “No employees provide opinions, suggestions, or opinions about who should or omitted.”
Leon Kanissalaro, a local prosecutor at the time, denied the role in the formation of a reliable clergy list that reflects his statement in 2020 last week. Kanizaro said he did not know why the saint spokesman had received a call related to the list.
The e -mail sent from the SAINTS account does not specify which clerk has been deleted or why. But they raise new questions about the role of saints in the growing scandal. Legal and financial interests As the team was wrapped in it, he had potentially violated NFL policies against “harmful in the league”.
Union of New Orleans institution
Saints executives are the oversized role of the executive of Saints, so New Orleans is preparing to hold the eleventh super bowl, so it can attract new attention from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodel, which is scheduled to spoke to reporters on Monday. Masu. A message requesting a comment has been sent to NFL.
In summary, e -mail depicts the union of several New Orleans institutions. Judge Jay Zainy, a US District Court copied by a saint, supported Benzell from his personal e -mail account and thanked the spokesman of the team to give a great advice. 。 Similarly, the newspaper editor was grateful for the participation of Bencel.
“You have made all points,” Zainey, a Catholic friend, praised the long memo sent by Saints spokesman to a local newspaper editor, and wrote another email to Bensel. “With his model and leadership, our shepherds, Bishops of the Shepherd, will continue to lead our church in the right direction. We will help you learn and rebuild from the past.”
Later Zainy Struck Louisiana's law, which was vigorously opposed to the church, would have permitted civil claims, regardless of how long the victim was suspected of sexual abuse. He rejected the comment.
Junrise of Catholic Church
This list marks a very Catholic New Orleans. This is the long -awaited MEA CULPA for parish people aiming to lead healing and local explanations. The church leaders eventually maintained the trust and financial support of the people, as in consideration of several generations of the abuse and litigation of the New Orleans of the New Orleans into bankruptcy. It was.
that LawsuitMore than 600 people who have been submitted in 2020 and have been abused by clergy. It is said that this case will record a record of a confidential church that is said to be documented for many years of abuse claims and a pattern of church leaders who relocate clergy without reporting crime to law execution agencies. I am.
An previous AP survey was discovered that while it was expanding, the list of the defendant's priest had missed many clergy when it was originally released.
AP has been identified 20 clergy Whether they were accused in a lawsuit or have been charged with the sexual abuse of children by law execution agencies, they have been informed of the New Orleans list in a crime and have been charged.
Nevertheless, this list functioned and released as a roadmap for both the FBI and the Louisiana police. Sweep survey To the shield of a looting priest of the New Orleans Church leader.
Last spring, the state police implemented A A wide range of search ordinance In the New Orleans Bishop, seizure records including communication with the Vatican.
Since the saints have begun to support the Bishops, the former members of at least seven and the former clergy have been charged with crimes from rape to possession of child pornography.
Public relations campaign
The degree of abuse was hardly known in 2018. This was the saint nine consecutive times for the appearance of the NFC championship. When the church prepared the media onslaught, Benzell implemented an aggressive public relations campaign, where he called, prepared for discussions, and leaned on a long -standing media contact, “I would like to apply for it soon.” The time to support the church through that.
Benzell, far from freelance, had the support and blessing of the saint through what he called the “Galileo moment.” Aimond suggests that he will become a trail blazer in releasing a reliable clerk list of the church's important time. In an email to the editorial committee, he warned the bishop “not useful or right” against “criticism.”
He encouraged the city newspaper to “cooperate” with the church, and succeeded in thanks for the saints and New Orleans Pelicans (the NBA team owned by Benson) for their support.
“We did this because we had the support from you,” Bencel wrote to the editor of Times Pikayune and New Orleans as follows: “
“We are sitting on the occasion with the New Orleans Bishops,” he added. “We need to talk about how this bishop is guiding us from this confusion.”
Climate relationship between saints and Catholic Church
Bishop Benson and Aimond have been close friends for many years. It was the Great Bishop, introducing Benson to his deceased husband, Tom Benson, who died in 2018, and had the control of New Orleans and NBA franchise.
The Bensons Foundation has given tens of millions of dollars to the Great Bishop and other Catholics. On the way, Aimond flew the owner's private jet, became almost a member of the team, and celebrated the public before the game.
When the clerk's abuse claims came to mind, Benzell, a saints spokesman, helped him to form a story in a local media. He exchanged friendly emails with a Pikayune columnist of the era of praise for the Bishop by releasing a clergy list. He also asked newspaper leadership to maintain confidential, not for publishing, not to share with others.
His email is clear that his email has deleted a notification from one online article, which requested the supporters personally dissatisfied with the publisher to reach out to the victims of clergy abuse. I did.
Kevin Hall, president and publisher of Georges Media, who owns the newspaper, welcomes the involvement of the community, but says, “We will reduce our journalistic standards and do not pursue the truth. I will not do it. “
“Nobody has received priority treatment in the news report,” he said in a statement. “For the past six years, we have a consistent publication of detailed stories that emphasize the serious problems of the Great Bishops' sexual abuse, and reports on this issue by WWL-TV and AP communication.”
The e -mail showed the supporters that Benzel urged to help the church. After the newspaper exposed, he first offered “Chat Crisis Communications” with the leader of the church. scandal The disgraceful butler George Brignac continued to be an amateur pastor even after the Great Bishop was rape a boy on the 8 -year -old altar.
“We have gained enough experience to become a saint and sound board,” Bencel wrote.
