Mealey's (March 21, 2019, 9:33 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — A trial court properly found that Mercy Health’s employee pension plan is a church plan and exempt from the Employee Retirement Income Security Act because Mercy and its Benefits Committee are “associated with” the Roman Catholic Church and “substantially all” of the plan participants are employees of the church, Mercy Health and its related entities argue in a March 18 appellee brief filed in the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (Sally Sanzone, et al. v. Mercy Health, et al., No. 18-3574, 8th Cir.)....