For years the New Orleans Saints have worked to suppress information about its extraordinary relationship with the Catholic Church, and now everything is spilling out on the week the city is hosting the Super Bowl.

Emails detail the efforts made by Saints team officials to assist New Orleans church leaders in handling the fallout from a sexual abuse crisis within the archdiocese.

As the church was engulfed in a child sex abuse scandal, Saints leadership stepped in to help handle it by offering unsolicited, free crisis PR advice.