On Easter Sunday I expect a great deal of news focused on the Pope. Given the way Pope Francis has sought to be a different kind of Pope than any in my lifetime, I wanted to learn what he had to say on Easter. In addition to satisfying that quest for knowledge, I also learned of an incredible error in Elisabetta Povoledo’s New York Times article: “Pope Francis Calls for ‘Peace in All the World’ in Easter Message.” A correction to the article’s final paragraph was posted the day after the piece was published:
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: April 1, 2013
An earlier version of this article mischaracterized the Christian holiday of Easter. It is the celebration of Jesus’s resurrection from the dead, not his resurrection into heaven.
So What?
According to Povelodo’s Twitter profile, she is “a reporter based in Rome” who writes for both the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times. To learn more about her writing, consider browsing or searching through over 800 of her New York Times articles.
I simply cannot fathom how it is she submitted the article with the error or how no editorial revision occurred before it was published. Cathy Lynn Grossman, religion reporter and “Faith and Reason” writer for the USA Today, wrote on Facebook that this error qualifies as the “best correction of 2013 to date! ”
What is your initial reaction to learning of this correction?