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

The article's lead paragraph is erroneous. It's a small, subtle error ... but it puts the Saints in an artificially bad light.

This part of the lead paragraph:

"... hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public relations damage control for the area’s Roman Catholic archdiocese ... "

should read

" ... hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives advising on how best to do public relations damage control for the area’s Roman Catholic archdiocese ... "

And then, this:

“Obviously, the Saints should not be in the business of assisting the Archdiocese, and the Saints’ public relations team is not in the business of managing the public relations of criminals engaged in pedophilia,” the attorneys wrote in a court filing.

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The Saints' PR staff was not managing the public relations of "criminals engaged in pedophilia"! They were offering advice to industry peers who themselves were absolutely not pedophiles.

When Penn State hired PR staff to help build back a reputation after Jerry Sandusky's abuses ... were those PR professionals engaged in covering up for Sandusky? Minimizing his crimes? Or were they working in service for the other thousands of Penn State faculty, staff, and students?