New reporting from multiple major news outlets has uncovered hundreds of emails documenting the New Orleans Saints’ involvement in an ongoing clergy abuse crisis within the Catholic archdiocese — a scandal that has led archbishop Gregory Michael Aymond to fire the board and CEO of Second Harvest food bank after they balked at using the nonprofit’s resources to pay for tens of millions of dollars the archdiocese owes to hundreds of child sex abuse survivors. Donors have voiced their outrage at this move while Aymond has defended his actions as being misrepresented by the leadership he ousted.
