Kansas nuns take on corporate America through stock market investments

Video Nuns invest in the stock market to secure futures and highlight causes

ABC News’ Elizabeth Schulze is in Atchison, Kansas where a group of nuns who secured their retirement by investing in the stock market, have become activists.

Kansas nuns take on corporate America through stock market investments

The nuns are pushing for change at major companies through shareholder activism.

Kansas women religious, other Catholics join anti-mining fight in El Salvador - Catholic Review

ATCHISON, Kan. (OSV News) — Benedictine Sister Mary Elizabeth Schweiger said it’s been a long time since she visited El Salvador, but she has never forgotten its people. That’s why she recently joined an effort to reverse a new law that allows mining in the country. Some 80 Benedictines at the Mount St. Scholastica community near Kansas City joined Sister Mary Elizabeth, their prioress, in signing a “Yes to life, no to mining” petition they sent…