Aquino sisters: Naming of street for Cardinal Sin long overdue

For presidential sisters Ballsy Aquino-Cruz and Viel Aquino-Dee, the renaming of a street in Mandaluyong City after the late Manila Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin was "long overdue." In a report of the Union of Catholic Asian News (UCAN), the sisters witnessed on Wednesday the renaming of E. Rodriguez Street to Jaime Cardinal Sin Street. “It should have been made years earlier, but we are glad it finally happened," Cruz, the eldest of the Aquino siblings, said in the report. Sin, who died on July 21, 2005, helped catapult their mother — the late President Corazon Aquino — to power through the EDSA People Power Revolution in 1986. The incumbent President Benigno Simeon Aquino III is Mrs. Aquino's only son. Not a street but a hero During the rites on Wednesday, Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas, who once served as Sin’s secretary, extolled the late cardinal's contribution to Philippine society. Villegas said the next generation of Filipinos should remember Jaime Cardinal Sin not just as a “city street" but as a “hero" whose courage, faith and love shaped the Philippines. “Cardinal Sin certainly does not need a street named after him. It is not really for him but for us, because we are a people who tend to forget," Villegas said. The city government of Mandaluyong initiated the move to rename the street in May. The city council passed an ordinance honoring Cardinal Sin, who led two “people power" uprisings in 1986 and 2001. - VVP, GMA News