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He wasn’t the president yet…
Mitt Romney’s French education
The small church in the Bordeaux suburb of Talence looks the same today as it did in the late 1960s, when Romney and fellow missionaries were photographed in front of it during a rare visit by then LDS church president, Howard Hunter.
In this article you mention that Mitt Romney was in a photograph in the late 1960′s “during a rare visit by then LDS church president, Howard Hunter”.
In the late 1960′s, Howard Hunter was a high ranking church official – a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles”, but was not the President of the Church. He was called to the position of church president much later.
The reason I know this is because I served a mission for the LDS church at about the same time as Mitt Romney (1967-69), but in a different country. In spite of this minor error, I thank you and its author for this informative, interesting and unbiased article.
Dennis
Yes, Hunter became the LDS president in 1994. We have corrected: GBU Editor
An angle that didn’t belong
Pope’s Berlin mass moved to Nazi Olympic site
BERLIN (Reuters) – Pope Benedict’s mass in his homeland has been moved due to high demand, the Berlin archdiocese said on Wednesday, and will now take place in Berlin’s Nazi-built Olympic Stadium.
I was really disappointed when I was reading this article.
What is the sense or the ulterior motive of the first part? That it will be a nazi-like event with red flags and torches and so on?
Next news on Reuters: The pope will use a nazi-built airport in Berlin!? And was it wrong, when I was driving on a nazi-bulit highway last time when i was in Germany?
Sadly Leni Riefenstahl is dead, that would have been a great documentary about the pope’s visit.
Chris
The wrong tomb?
You have the wrong information in a photo caption.
The Photo is Benedict XVI praying in front of tomb of John Paul I. John Paul II is buried in ground, and has a slanting tombstone.
Jason
Indeed. We corrected the photo caption: GBU Editor
An oxymoron?
Mubarak likely to quit, Brotherhood fears coup
CAIRO, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak looked likely to step down on Thursday after more than two weeks of protests against his 30-year rule and the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood said it looked like there had been a military coup.
“Islamist Muslim Brotherhood” (in re Egypt and elsewhere) seems rather redundant, as the existence of a non-Islamist Muslim Brotherhood would seem to be something of an oxymoron.
ADF
I think you’re mixing up Islamist and Islamic.
The former, which we used here, means “supporting or advocating Islamic fundamentalism.” GBU Editor
A child of a brotherhood member holds a copy of the Koran during a demonstration by the Muslim Brotherhood against the Israeli attacks in Gaza, outside the journalists syndicate in Cairo, January 21, 2009. REUTERS/Amr Dalsh
A non-prophet organization?
Pope: Governments must protect minority Christians
He made reference to last week’s murder of Salman Taseer, the Muslim governor of Punjab province and an outspoken liberal, who was gunned down for opposing the law, which imposes a death sentence for those who insult the Prophet Mohammad.
I’ve just noticed recently that Reuters is following in the footsteps of AP and AFP in designating the Islamic prophet Mohammad as “The Prophet Mohammad”.
I as a Christian don’t consider him my prophet, and neither do, I’m sure, Jews, atheists, Hindus, Buddhists, etc.
Why then have all the mainstream news outlets decided to treat us all as if we are Muslims?
Rightly, he should be described as “the Islamic prophet Muhammad” rather than “The Prophet Muhammad”.
Nikolas
Where are my comments?
Pope John Paul nears sainthood, to be beatified
See the attached documents and please explain why my comments are inappropriate. I have informed the truth as it could be.
L.P.F.
You’re asking why your comments on this story didn’t make it online? We get that from a number of readers, and usually there is a very good reason.
Let’s see. You wrote a rambling 748-word comment, all in one long paragraph, in response to a 640-word story?
Then you sent the same comment again and again and again, and now you wonder why we consider you a spammer? Really? GBU Editor
A faithful prays in front of a painting showing Pope John Paul II in a church in downtown Rome January 13, 2011. REUTERS/ Max Rossi
@ARJTurgot2
Joyce probably didn’t inundate his publisher with the same manuscript of Finnegan’s Wake submitted
“again and again and again”
If he had done that, his work wouldn’t have been published either!
Galileo and the Bible
God was behind Big Bang, universe no accident: Pope
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – God’s mind was behind complex scientific theories such as the Big Bang, and Christians should reject the idea that the universe came into being by accident, Pope Benedict said on Thursday.
Benedict and his predecessor John Paul have been trying to shed the Church’s image of being anti-science, a label that stuck when it condemned Galileo for teaching that the earth revolves around the sun, challenging the words of the Bible.
I would like to know where in the Bible it says that the earth does not revolve around the sun. I would love for you to show me because it’s not there.
You are leading many people to believe the Bible says something that it does not. There needs to be a retraction if there is no supporting evidence. For example, if a common belief of the times was that the world was flat does NOT mean that’s what the Bible says.
The Bible does not say that the sun revolves around the earth, and it is a lie to say otherwise.
Holly
The wrong church?
Could you please correct the picture posted with this article?
The picture is of the Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada, which in no way is connected to the story.
As a prominent landmark of Winnipeg, our Cathedral should in no way be associated with this article.
B.M.
We removed the photo from that item: GBU Editor
A Kafkaesque error?
Florida pastor’s daughter: ‘he needs help’
After leaving the community aged 17, Emma Jones said she returned in 2005 to find it had become insect-like.
In this story, attributed to Reuters, surely “insect-like” should be “sect-like”?
It made me laugh, anyway.
Cheri
As far as I can determine all of our versions of that story did indeed say sect-like.
The error was introduced by a website that republished our story: GBU Editor
Real death threats?
US pastor backs off Koran-burning plan for now
Jones’ adult son Luke, who wore a handgun on his hip because of death threats against church members, told reporters his father would fly to New York later on Friday.
Shouldn’t that be ‘alleged death threats,’ or ‘reported death threats?’
They taught us in school not to state it as a flat-out fact unless we had verified it. Have you? It’s a fairly important, not to say inflammatory tidbit to let pass w/o either qualification or verification, n’est-ce pas?
Harry J.
Law enforcement officials have confirmed to us that there were death threats, which they are investigating.
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