NPR's Scott Simon talks with two Ursuline nuns who have been traveling down the Ohio River in a flatboat this week, re-enacting the trip taken by Ursuline sisters 130 years ago to establish a school.

CURRENT LITERATURE.; A LOST VIGIL TEN YEARS A NUN. A RIVER LYRIC. Dec. 22, 1867 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from December 22, 1867, Page 2 Buy Reprints View ...

Unregulated heavy rare earth mining in war-torn Myanmar is poisoning the Kok River in Thailand. Hannah Beech, a New York ...

Before my trip to Our Lady of the Rock, the Shaw Island monastery where seven Benedictine nuns pray and farm on 300 acres of land, I had never met a nun before. Unless watching “Sister Act ...

The Call of River Nun may be described as a poem of remembrances, desire to live freely without any fear, without any enemy. I remembered all that happened in the decade that you might have ...

POTTSTOWN — The nuns have returned to Steel River Playhouse, 245 E. High St., but this time with a twist. In “Nunsense A-Men!” all the characters are portrayed by men. “Nunsense A-men ...

That “sea-bird call” that “stills” the waves came on Sunday, March 24, and the Poet of the River Nun was just too human to resist the summons.

A nun in full habit went into the Russian River to try and help a family of four, but she also needed to be rescued by helicopter after she became trapped by the fast current, authorities said.

FORT WORTH (CBSNewsTexas.com) - The public legal dispute between the Carmelite nuns and Bishop Michael Olson isn't cooling down. Friday evening, the nuns posted a statement accusing Olson of ...

Jomarie Calasanz, a 26-year-old Los Angeles woman, went missing after being swept into the Kaweah River of Sequoia National Park last month. The search has been limited after the area became ...

Rivertown Theaters to Present NUNSENSE 4/8-18 The cast features Laurie Reinagel, Christina Early, Chelsea Gidden, Carrie Black, and Jordan Lawrence.

In the Gila River Indian community, one nun continues to make a difference by helping children at the St. Peter Mission School fight obesity.