December 21, 2012

Fox Forces the Mass Into Christmas

Mollie Hemingway, Get Religion

A friend put this picture up on Google+ (so I guess that answers the question of whether people still use Google+!). Around the same time, a reader submitted this story from Fox News, headlined:

Church devastated by super storm Sandy looks forward to Christmas mass 
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TAGGED: Reporting, Christmas

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