FactCheck: The article’s author Anne Nelson clarifies that she referred to some ladies whom Sister Christine Tan talked to as playing mahjong, not the nun herself. FactsFirstPH
, referred to Sister Christine Tan – a member of the Grotto of the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, also known as the Pink Sisters – as someone who plays mahjong.The claim was made in an August 2 post on the Facebook page “VinCentiments” by writer and director Darryl Yap and cinematographer Vincent Asis. Yap directed the movie,, released on August 3. It supposedly shows the Marcos family’s final 72 hours in Malacañang from their own perspective.
The dispute over who was referred to as playing mahjong in Nelson’s article revolves around this sentence: “Her [Sister Christine Tan’s] tranquil voice would take on a slightly chiding tone as she’d try to convince the perfumed ladies, taking the afternoon off from the mah-jong circuit, that the breeding grounds for such misery in their country ultimately could threaten their own well-being, too.”that there was no mention in the article of Sister Christine, or of Cory Aquino, playing mahjong.
Correction: my 1989 article reported 1) Cory Aquino visited Pink Sisters for prayer; 2) she was a friend of Christine Tan; 3) Christine Tan gave talks to ladies who sometimes played mah-jongg. It said nothing about Aquino or Tan playing mah-jongg. Pardon previous typo.
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