"Saints inspire hope that things could get better, that a job could be granted or that justice could be served, writes Calvo-Quirós, an assistant professor of American culture and Latinx studies at the University of Michigan.
“Until sexism, homophobia, and all those things remain part of the rhetoric of the church, people are not going to feel welcome, and they’ll go find other places,” he says.""
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