Wrong, officer. I read and posted a news story from a well-known news source. I did run with anything. They reported him as praying there. Yes, I relied on their story, since I wasn’t there. Yes, it turned out to be incorrect according to the Vatican. The story you posted published after the one I posted, so I consider the Vatican spokesman’s purposeful mention that the Pope didn’t pray there as a correction of an existing impression held by at least one significant news source.
From your article:
“AMMAN, Jordan, May 9 (UPI) —
“Pope Benedict XVI prayed Saturday at the King Hussein Mosque in the Jordanian capital Amman, Vatican officials said.”
Now here’s the true report from the same Vatican spokesman - he obviously got the question - did the Pope pray in the mosque:
Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, told reporters in Amman, “It would not be precise to say the pope prayed in the mosque (today), but it would be right to say he paused in respectful meditation in a place where numerous people also pray and meditate before God.”
From OPUSFR link: http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0902139.htm
All the other news outlets heard the Vatican spokesman correctly but for your UPI article. How come one might wonder. A good headline with which to beat the Pope and his flock?