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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Atchison, Kansas – 17 July 2024
1. Drone view of the Benedictine Monastery of Mount St. Scholastica
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Atchison, Kansas – 16 July 2024
2. Sisters entering chapel for morning prayer
3. Various of sisters singing during morning prayer
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sr. Rose Marie Stallbaumer, Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica:
"Well we were just beginning to set money aside for our elderly sisters and to care for our own retirement. Up to that point, we really did not have any investments. And as we started to do that, we decided it was really important to do it in a responsible way."
5. Pan of a group photo of the Benedictine sisters
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sr. Rose Marie Stallbaumer, Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica:
"Making sure that our investments are invested in companies that we believe in, and support. And if they don’t, we might have a small amount invested in other companies. Like some years ago, we withdrew from fossil fuels. However, we said, let’s keep a small amount so we can file shareholder resolutions in those companies."
7. Sr. Stallbaumer opening a file cabinet containing their resolution files
8. Resolutions filed by the Benedictine Sisters
9. Sr. Stallbaumer looking through resolution files
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sr. Barbara McCracken, Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica:
"We filed Alphabet, that’s Google and we did Amazon and we did Chevron. That was a racial equity audit we asked for from Chevron."
11. Sr. Stallbaumer looking through resolution files
12. Sr. Stallbaumer looking through newspaper clippings about prior resolutions
13. Various of sisters singing during evening prayer
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Sr. Barbara McCracken, Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica:
"It works to build a world in which corporate policies and practices reflect a just and equitable distribution of resources for the common good. It’s kind of like spreading the money around. You know, there’s too many rich people. And way too. Yeah, too many rich people and way too many poor people. Both. And it needs to be spread around a heck of a lot more."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Atchison, Kansas – 17 July 2024
15. Drone view of monastery’s garden and solar panels
16. Sister Elaine Fischer, who managers the buildings and property, driving through the monastery
17. Corn growing at the monastery
18. Sunflowers growing at the monastery
19. Beehives at the monastery
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Atchison, Kansas – 16 July 2024
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Sr. Barbara McCracken, Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica:
"To me, it’s again, it’s just how do we try and structure our life? Our lifestyle, living according to the gospel. And it’s going to intersect with politics and economics. Both. It’s just, you know, the nature of, being an active citizen. And we’re just trying to be good citizens."
21. Sisters standing during prayer
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Atchison, Kansas – 17 July 2024
22. Sisters singing during morning prayer
STORYLINE:
The Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica in Atchison, Kansas, who in recent months gained notoriety for denouncing the graduation speech given by the Kansas City Chiefs kicker, are no strangers to social justice and voicing their beliefs.
For the past two decades the sisters have engaged in activist investing. Meaning they invest what little money they have into corporations that match their moral and religious ideals, but also into those who don’t in order to change what they say are the harmful policies of large corporations.
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