Thousands of dollars are missing from a Watertown, Massachusetts church after police said someone walked in and stole the donations.

Watertown police said roughly $9,000 in donations was stolen from St. Patrick's Church on Main Street sometime after 5:30 p.m. on Monday. A call reporting the missing money came in around 8:30 Tuesday morning.

"Anytime a church is broken into people feel bad," said Father Timothy Kearney of St. Patrick's.

The reverend went on to say that in these economic times people are already stretching every dollar to continue to make donations to the church.

"In a lot of churches, the people who give often are giving something else up so that they can give," Father Kearney said. "So, you feel bad about that, but you also feel bad too that you know somebody was despe

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