An Irish artist, Kevin Sharkey, has painted Pope Benedict conducting a marriage service for two men:
The image may be surprising, but would be entirely consistent with church history – the historians John Boswell “Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
“) and Alan Bray (“The Friend“) have shown that ancient liturgical rites for blessing same-sex unions in church were used for centuries in both the Eastern and Western churches.
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