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

sammymvpknight said

I'm a religious person myself. This frustrates me on many levels. It frustrates me that the Saints went into the relationship. It frustrates me that it yet again reveals hypocrisy within religion which drives people away from God. If my Church sought outside secular help to smooth over a HUGE ethical/legal error, I'd find another church. The whole thing just stinks.

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The Saints have been associated with the church since their inception though. We were named the Saints because of the team being awarded to the city on the Catholic holiday of All Saints Day (in a majority Catholic city), have had priests say masses with prayers for the football team's success and Mr. Benson and Gayle have been tight with the archbishop for a long time (and the former archbishop as well).

And I don't think they were really trying to smooth anything over by this time. The cat was already out of the bag. The priests had all already been identified and defrocked and this was just about how to release the names to the media and law enforcement in the least damaging way possible. I guess you can say that's smoothing it over, but there wasn't anything that could be done to smooth things over in this situation. All the Church could do was what they ended up being advised by the Saints to do, according to their statement.