“Students of St. Scholastica’s are ‘colegiala ’; they’re not used to advocacy work,” said the retired environmentalist nun, Sister Aida Velasquez OSB. She explained that schoolgirls in this exclusive, all-girls Catholic College are from affluent families. But she added that Sister Mary John Mananzan OSB was the exception. “She is the activist,” Sister Aida said. A boarding “interna” since grade school, Sister Mary John also took her perpetual vo…
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