Marilú Rojas Salazar is a Mexican researcher and Catholic theologian, noted for her feminist activism, research in gender studies and position in favor of reforming the Catholic Church to recognize "the right to citizenship" of women in the church, including leadership positions and ordinations.
[1] She is a missionary nun of Santa Teresa de Lisieux and holds both a masters and a PhD in systematic theology from the Catholic University of Leuven.
[2] She believes that the Vatican must rethink issues such as human rights and participation of women in the Church and criticizes the papacy, but not the pope.
In Rojas' explanation, the system, not the individual popes, promote "structures [which are] sexist, macho, patriarchal, class conscious, hierarchical and homophobic".
It also embraces multiculturalism, recognizing that in Latin America oppression of people has caused marginalization and continues to be based on relations of inequality, domination and exclusion.