"Activist nuns take on corporate America through stock market investments," 11 Apr. 2025

... [Sister Barbara] McCracken and her fellow nuns at Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica say they have transformed into savvy investors, using their shareholder status to advocate for corporate change at tech giants and Fortune 500 companies.

The strategy is straightforward: invest at least $2,000 in a company's stock to gain shareholder rights, then submit resolutions pushing for corporate responsibility.

... "We look at companies with child labor issues, employment policies, and how they treat their employees," Sister Rose-Marie Stallbaumer explained. "Their benefit packages, the wages, and whether the CEO gets a huge amount of the profits rather than sharing it with workers – for me, it's the human element."

... In the past year alone, the sisters have submitted more than a dozen shareholder resolutions, including pushing Alphabet (Google's parent company) to adopt stricter AI development rules, urging Chevron to establish an independent human rights monitoring commission, and calling on Amazon and Verizon to implement more transparent lobbying practices.

... The companies declined ABC News' requests for comment. While none of the resolutions passed, the sisters remain undeterred.