Dorian Breh
Veteran
It was The Advocate's reporting that prompted Bensel to help the church, the emails show. He first offered to "chat crisis communications" with church leaders after the newspaper exposed a scandal involving a disgraced deacon, George Brignac, who remained a lay minister even after the archdiocese settled claims he had raped an 8-year-old altar boy.
"We have been through enough at Saints to be a help or sounding board," Bensel wrote, "but I don't want to overstep!"
