Nuns sue archbishop for right to ditch pension fund

The Daughters of St Paul have filed a lawsuit at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court demanding the right to withdraw the funds they invested in a church-run pension fund on behalf of their staff. They run Catholic publishing house Pauline, which employs around 100 lay staff. The nuns want to withdraw the $1.4m investment they made on behalf of their lay employees from the pension fund, which is now heavily underfunded. They have been trying to leave the fund and create their own since 2005. The Daughters want the court to rule they were never legitimately part of the pension f...