There must be an appropriate liturgy in the Roman Catholic missal for blessing a same-sex couple; perhaps all it takes is a few Search And Replace edits to the rite for blessing a house or a meal or a football team.
As encouraging as it is to see Pope Francis willing to make this modest accommodation for same-sex couples in the Catholic Church, I'll wait to see what his successor has to say about it before I get my hopes up that his church has entered the 21st Century.
Or that it is willing to hearken back to the medieval and earlier rites of affrèrement or adelphopoiesis, a plighting of troth between unrelated male adults to live together sharing "un pain, un vin, et une bourse" (one bread, one wine, and one purse). No mention of un lit, but different-sex wedding rites seldom mention that, either.
The priest in today's cartoon might check out the congregational records of the Monastery de San Salvador de Vilanova de Lourenzá for the 1061 church wedding of Pedro Díaz and Muño Vandilaz. I wouldn't be surprised if their union had been sealed with a Holy Kiss.
You couldn't ask for a more traditional wedding.
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