Incredible correction: Easter is hard for The New York Times; 'What is this resurrection thingie?'

You can’t make this stuff up!

https://twitter.com/kirstenpowers10/status/318766255031066624

Easter is hard.

https://twitter.com/kirstenpowers10/status/318766512662003713

https://twitter.com/kirstenpowers10/status/318766780250202113

Oh my. And, yes, that happened.

Can't make this up: NYT issues correction on Easter, a holiday about which they apparently weren't that familiar: http://t.co/iW1sv5Uwis

— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) April 1, 2013

NewsBusters has the original text of NYT Easter flub: http://t.co/rzb5IHqdgC

— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) April 1, 2013

More from NewsBusters:

Easter is the celebration of the resurrection into heaven of Jesus, three days after he was crucified, the premise for the Christian belief in an everlasting life. In urging peace, Francis called on Jesus to ”change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into peace.”

The Times issued this correction:

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.

Mistakes happen. But this one is incredible.

https://twitter.com/MABlumenfeld/status/318738504605659137

Worse: The writer of the article is a reporter based in Rome, who frequently reports on the Vatican. No, really.

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/318737774549270529

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/318735826290880513

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/318738924287709184

The mockery continues:

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So nobody at the NYT knew what Easter celebrates???? Wow. http://t.co/9hl1HkyCSa

— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) April 1, 2013

Incredible NYT correction: "An earlier version of this article mischaracterized the Christian holiday of Easter." http://t.co/V57nulXAPI

— Chris Moody (@moody) April 1, 2013

Lol. The NYT had to issue a correction because they don't understand what this newfangled "Easter" is about. http://t.co/FZ45Ya2Vbj

— Razor (@hale_razor) April 1, 2013

NOT an April Fool's Joke: RT @kirstenpowers10 The NYT had to run a correction b/c they didn't know what Easter was http://t.co/nCtacnhRX1

— Ray Hollenbach (@Hollenbach) April 1, 2013

https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/318743747057827841

What is this thing called Easter? “@jamestaranto: Another awesome NYT correction (scroll to bottom). http://t.co/xq9EMIhUbs”

— Ken Booth (@KenBooth) April 1, 2013

https://twitter.com/kirstenpowers10/status/318769588206706688

Do we smell a hashtag?

https://twitter.com/TheOneRory/status/318742320499552258

https://twitter.com/TheOneRory/status/318741994065256448