I'm mortified.

A Pillar Post apology

Hey everybody,

In the Tuesday Pillar Post this morning, I wrote as the opening line that Pope St. John Paul II’s death was 25 years ago, instead of 20. In a caption, I wrote that he died Feb. 2, instead of April 2.

I’m mortified. So embarrassed that I decided to write to you — in part preemptively, because otherwise you’ll be writing me to all day long.

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