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Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt was thrust into the national spotlight last winter when the Loyola Ramblers ascended to the NCAA tournament. But a year later, social media accounts claiming to be the beloved team chaplain still linger.

And one recently put Schmidt in the middle of a national controversy involving Catholic students from Kentucky. “I would just like to say that I approve of and defend the actions of the boys from Covington High School,” the tweet last month read from the account username @SisterJean98.

The official Twitter account for Loyola University Chicago quickly responded by telling users that the account was a “fake account” that didn’t represent the views of Schmidt or the university. The university confirmed Monday that Schmidt doesn’t even have any social media accounts.

The Loyola Phoenix, the student-run newspaper, first reported news of the tweet.

The tweet was referring to a national debate after a video went viral of a tense interaction between students from Covington Catholic High School and a 64-year-old Native American man. The interaction happened in the wake of two rallies, the Indigenous Peoples March and the March for Life, that happened to coincide in Washington D.C., last month.

Loyola reported the tweet and account, but it remained active as of this week. Twitter declined to comment, saying in an email that the company doesn’t comment on individual accounts for privacy and security concerns. The Twitter account in question states in its biography, “(not sister Jean)”.

In the company’s impersonation policy, Twitter states that users are allowed to create parody, newsfeed, commentary or fan accounts, according to its website.

The account that tweeted about Covington High School is one of more than a dozen accounts that come up when Schmidt’s name is searched on Twitter.

The Associated Press contributed.

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