The New Orleans Saints played a more extensive role than previously known in local church leaders’ damage control during a crisis brought on by clergy engaged in an alleged systemic campaign of sexual abuse,

"It doesn’t make any sense to me why the [team] would go to these lengths to protect grown men who raped children," a state lawmaker said.

New Orleans Saints executives were involved with the Catholic Church as it worked to spin its sex-abuse scandal, emails seem to show. The post New Orleans Saints helped the Catholic Church spin its horrific sex-abuse scandal,