And how exactly do they know this?

I’m sure the lede statement was meant to read thusly:

Playboy magazine apologized for a controversial cover featuring a scantily-clad woman resembling images of the Virgin Mary, Reuters reported.

Instead, though, it read this way:

Playboy magazine apologized for a controversial cover featuring a scantily-clad woman resembling the Virgin Mary, Reuters reported.

Leaving me to wonder just how it is that Reuters knows what the Virgin Mary actually looked like.