Nuns ride motorcycles to raise money for low-income school clinics

This weekend, people in the Houston-Galveston area will have the opportunity to see something they don’t see too often: nuns on motorcycles.

At the annual Nun Run, motorcyclists drive a 50-mile route from the Villa de Matel, the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word’s convent in Houston, to Galveston’s Lone Star Flight Museum. Adventurous nuns ride on the back of the motorcycles, others ride in sidecars or a nun bus.

Sister Roseanne Popp, MD, who together with fellow Sister Deenan Hubbard founded the Nun Run in 2005, is one of the more adventurous nuns. She rides on the back of a bike every year.

The two nuns came up with the idea for the Nun Run when they were trying to raise money for a children’s Christmas party. One of the nuns Sister Roseanne lived with told her about her brother in California who rides a Harley Davidson. When the sister talked to him on the phone, he told her, “Ask the bikers!”

“So we just put our heads together and that’s what we came up with,” Sister Roseanne said. “We wanted to do something that nobody else was doing.”

When they organized their first Nun Run in 2005, “We competed with (hurricanes) Rita, Katrina and who knows what else,” Sister Roseanne said. [more]

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