New Orleans Clergy Abuse
Title: ‘Shame on them’: anger and dismay from survivors over Saints clergy-abuse emails
Authors: Ramon Antonio Vargas & David Hammer
Publisher: The Guardian
Date: 04FEB2025
Survivors of Catholic clergy abuse and their supporters expressed disgust, pain and disbelief after the Guardian and WWL Louisiana’s investigation on Monday into hundreds of emails showing officials with the NFL’s Saints and NBA’s Pelicans aided New Orleans’ Roman Catholic archdiocese efforts to soften critical media coverage about the church’s management of a clerical molestation scandal.
Richard Windmann said it was “disturbing” to see the emails mention his decision to go public about his abuse as a child at the hands of a priest and janitor at Jesuit high school in New Orleans in the 1970s.
In 2012, after he came forward about his abuse, the religious order which runs Jesuit deemed Windmann credible and paid him $450,000 to quietly settle out of court. But after media coverage about a local, abusive deacon and a Pennsylvania grand jury report which established Catholic clergy abuse in that state was more widespread than previously realized, Windmann opted to speak publicly about his ordeal.
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