gambling habit, prosecutors said. Sister Mary Anne Rapp of the Order
of St. Francis pleaded guilty in Orleans County Court to one count of
fourth-degree grand larceny, District Attorney Joe Cardone said. A
court heard Rapp, a Roman Catholic nun for 50 years, took the cash
between March 2006 and April 2011 when she was in charge of collecting
donations for the two parishes Rapp stole the money from St. Mark's
Church in Holley, N.Y., about 60 miles northeast of Buffalo. The
thefts occurred from 2006 to 2011. Western New York state's Daily News
Online reports an audit was ordered by Father Mark Noonan when he took
over as pastor of the two houses of worship in 2010. Discrepancies
were discovered, and Rapp was arrested in November. She faces a
maximum sentence of six months in jail and five years probation.
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