NATIONAL BRIEFING / AND FINALLY . . .
Thousands of issues of Brigham Young University’s student newspaper were pulled from newsstands because a front-page photo caption misidentified leaders of the Mormon church as apostates instead of apostles.
An apostate is a person who has abandoned religious faith, principles or a cause.
The photo in Monday’s Daily Universe was of members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, a governing body of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The caption called the group the “Quorum of the Twelve Apostates.”
Carri Jenkins, spokeswoman for church-owned BYU in Provo, Utah, said that it was an honest mistake and that most of the 18,000 copies of the student paper were retrieved.
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