Pittsburgh Episcopal priest shoplifted baseball cards from Walmart, sold church artifacts on Ebay

Pittsburgh Episcopal priest pleads guilty to stealing​ baseball cards from Walmart
By Andy Sheehan
Updated on: June 19, 2026 / 7:20 PM EDT / CBS Pittsburgh


The former dean of the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral has pled guilty to stealing baseball cards from a Walmart, but he remains in hot water over several dozen artifacts that have gone missing.

Rev. Aidan Smith had been a popular and energetic leader at the downtown cathedral, until his shocking arrest in February for stealing hundreds of dollars worth of baseball cards from the Walmart store in Economy Borough, Beaver County.

In March, he resigned his position as dean after the cathedral said it discovered he had taken — and was in the process of selling — dozens of cathedral-owned artifacts, putting several chalices, communion plates and silver crosses up for sale on eBay.

Cathedral officials went to his home in Ambridge, where communication director Andrew Muhl says they recovered 91 missing artifacts.

"Others could not be recovered because they had already been sold," Muhl told KDKA-TV.