The ONLY way I see this as possibly of benefit is keeping the kids from being rhetorically trapped by hostile interviewers. Lest we forget the likes of Katie Couric's crew butchering the tapes of interviews with Sara Palin to make her look like a rube, the same could be done with these boys, and that might damage the course of litigation.
The optics suck, though, and the Diocese and school should recant apologies made on the basis of reporting
that has been proven false and misleading.
Failure to back their own students when they are right might be felt in Alumni donations in the future.