Sometimes you can find the truth about Mormonism in the most unlikeliest of places.

HT: What Mormons Don’t Tell

From online source LDS Resources:

The photo above appeared in the Monday April 6th copy of BYU’s newspaper, The Daily Universe, the day following General Conference. A caption below the photo read, in part, “… the Quorum of the Twelve Apostates…” instead of Apostles. Appearantly, [sic] they didn’t catch it in time.

The paper apologized for the mistake and gathered up as many of the 18,000 copies that it could. It attributes the mistake to a spell-check error made by a copy editor who was under the pressures of a deadline.

The typographical error that sent the department scrambling to recycle 259,000 pages of newsprint was actually an innocent mistake on the part of a student editor under deadline pressure, said Rich Evans, editorial manager of the university’s newspaper, The Daily Universe.

“Her intentions were good,” Evans said. “It was an honest mistake and one that two other people should have caught, too.”

In referring to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints apostleship in a front-page photo, the caption read, “Members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostates and other general authorities raise their hands in a sustaining vote…”

Once the mistake was noticed, all available copies of the newspaper were removed from the racks and replaced with a sign directing students to view the paper online, said Brad Rawlins, chair of the Department of Communications. Daryl Gibson, director of NewsNet IT, said this is the first time the paper has been pulled because of a news error in his more than 30 years of working at BYU.

After a day of student interviews and reviewing audit trails, Evans said he believes the gaffe ironically occurred during a spell check. The Daily Universe was using Adobe software called InDesign, which, when it found the word apostle misspelled as “apsotale,” suggested “apostate” at the top of its correction list.

“She quickly clicked on the first (suggestion) and moved on,” Evans said. “A real unfortunate mistake.”

It is interesting that the InDesign software by Adobe suggests “apostate” before “apostle,” but the Microsoft Word software suggests “apostle” before “apostate.”