Sharpshooting nun who picked off 10-point buck catches flak

A Pennsylvania Navy-vet and current nun who teaches at a catholic school was blasted on social media when she shared an image of her harvest last week.

Benedictine Sister John Paul Bauer of St. Mary’s, a rural area in Erie County that is home to Straub Brewery and the first Benedictine convent in the United States, has been hunting for five years and has successfully bagged both bear and deer in recent seasons. With that, the educator who teaches at Elk County Catholic High School didn’t think twice about sharing a photo of her recent harvest, that of an impressive mature buck with a 16-inch spread.

The image made it to the Diocese’s Facebook page where it received 2.1 million views and 16,585 shares but was pulled after a series of negative comments.

“We did take it down. The majority of the comments were positive, but many of the comments were inflammatory,” Anne-Marie Welsh, a representative for the diocese, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

Welsh said they posted the image to give the parish insight into the lives and hobbies of some of their members and never expected a backlash.

“We thought it was an interesting way to show that sisters have different interests and talents along with their vocation,” Welsh said Monday.

IMO, hating on photos of kills from legal and non-canned hunting is improper. Deer hunting is a acceptable and needed thing in many parts of the US.