Posted on 03/17/2016 6:40:23 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
BERWICK, Pa. — State police say a 78-year-old nun was caught shoplifting $23 worth of coffee, snacks and toiletries from a store in central Pennsylvania.
Troopers say Sister Agnes Pennino was seen shoplifting the items from the Surplus Outlet near Berwick on Monday afternoon.
WNEP-TV reports police determined the woman captured on surveillance video was the nun who lived about 20 miles away at the Saints Cyril and Methodius Convent in Danville.
Store manager Zane Kishbach says he "couldn't believe it that a nun would actually do something like that."
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It is the new Cathocommie Church.
Or having some sort of health problem affecting her brain.
Long before we realized my mother had Alzheimer’s she did things that she would never have done before.
Could very well be Alzheimer’s or dementia, at her age. She should be checked out for it.
Both my x wives and my daughter are CINO’s (Catholics In Name Only). Who can blame them after the priest’s doing their thing on little children for decades or centuries and the church paying out millions. Now this. No surprise here.
This almost certainly a case of a person who has dedicated her entire life to helping others, and who now is in a confused state. Absent any further negative info on her, I'd say great compassion is warranted here.
The nun has developed a nasty habit.
It was some kind of senile dementia. Emotionally, she sometimes reverted back to the extreme neediness of her childhood, when she and her siblings often went hungry. And she took to calling older men (even those a little younger than herself) "Dad."
Don't assume the worst about people. I wouldn't assume the worst about you.
Good post yours. The key point in the original article is not that the woman is a nun. It’s that she is 78 years old.
Call Batman.
Thoughts here ...
Maybe your common thief dressed up in nun attire in an attempt to get a free pass? How many times did she get away with it prior to this?
I am sorry for your personal pain.
Wonderful post.
It doesn't sound like a very savvy criminal M.O.
You could well be right as my mother has tried to befriend a number of nuns over the years and found most of them to be, for lack of a better term, a bit loony.
It actually caused her to develop a theory that a lifetime of celibacy does very bad things to the female brain.
I doubt she went out and bought an outfit at retail. But if she ‘came across one’ it might have sparked the idea in her mind.
Nuns take a vow of poverty. At the Catholic school I attended, the nuns cared for each other in sickness and had no luxuries. Meanwhile, the priests were wined and dined and I was told they had a health care plan and a pension when they retired.
I had an uncle who was a priest, and he did take a vow of poverty. He owned shockingly little in a material sense.
Nonetheless I have seen what you are talking about.
In the same part of PA yet ANOTHER priestly sex abuse scandal with cover-up has broken, so the stolen bar of soap is quite a minor issue by comparison.
Sounds like dementia.
Those who judge in haste are likely to repent in shame. Read 2 Samuel 10, the whole chapter.
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