Benedictine sisters Rose Marie Stallbaumer (left) and Barbara McCracken look through corporate resolution archives and newspaper clippings at the Mount St. Scholastica monastery in Atchison, Kan., on July 16. For the past two decades, the community has participated in activist investing, a process in which they partner with other religious organizations to buy the stocks of companies they hope to positively influence.
The Associated Press
ATCHISON, Kansas — Among corporate America’s most persistent shareholder activists are 80 nuns in a monastery outside Kansas City…