Saints fight to avoid disclosing emails in Catholic abuse crisis (MERGED)

insidejob said

Seriously, it seems like all the Saints did was advise the church on PR for handling the sex abuse scandal in how to go about announcing the names. With Benson being close to the Archbishop, it makes sense that he'd use the PR team from his billion dollar company to help his friend with a strategy. And it wasn't a strategy for a cover up (at least it seems) but rather to uncover things.

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This is the key part of the article to me:
Attorneys for the men suing the church say “multiple” Saints personnel, including Senior Vice President of Communications Greg Bensel, used their team email to advise church officials on “messaging” and how to soften the impact of the archdiocese’s release of a list of clergy members “credibly accused” of sexual abuse.

They were never gonna fight to keep the names hidden. The archdiocese was always gonna release the names.