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April 22, 2019 8:14 AM
New York Times hits new low with mortifying Notre Dame correction
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It was just in time for Easter!
The
New York Times has been forced to run yet another correction that speaks
to the paper’s profound ignorance regarding the basic beliefs of
Christianity.
In a
The Times highlighted the actions of Father Jean-Marc Fournier, the
Paris Fire Department chaplain who exposed himself to certain danger in
order to recover the cathedral’s treasured relics.
“I had two priorities: to
save the crown of thorns and a statue of Jesus,” the Grey Lady quoted
him. The story was full of gripping details about the scramble to
preserve this statue. “As the chaplain began removing a statue of Jesus,
he said, his colleagues were fighting the fire from the cathedral’s
towers,” the paper reported. “With the statue in hand, Father Fournier,
alone in the nave, gave a benediction to the cathedral, he said.”
There’s one small problem
here. There’s no statue of Jesus inside Notre Dame. What Father Fournier
was referring to was the Blessed Sacrament, communion bread that,
according to Catholic doctrine, contains the real presence of Jesus
Christ.
Sure enough, The New York
Times later appended this correction to the story: “An earlier version
of this article misidentified one of two objects recovered from
Notre-Dame by the Rev. Jean-Marc Fournier. It was the Blessed Sacrament,
not a statue of Jesus.”
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