PUBLIC MARKS from sbrothier with tags religions & photography

World religious leaders gathered in Rome, Italy, to take part to the 27th inter-religious peace summit hosted by the Community of Sant’Egidio, an Italian based Catholic lay association with a network of members spreading over 60 countries.

(2010 - in progress ) Et Nunc is based on my childhood experience of perceiving priests as having two different identities, one before and one during Mass itself. The sacred vestments of the Catholic religion have the ability to transform the priest into an embodiment of divine power. My work uses documentary photographic portraiture to examine this transformation.

Sexual relations are proper only between a man and a woman who are legally and lawfully wedded as husband and wife. Any other sexual relations, including those between persons of the same gender, are sinful and undermine the divinely created institution of the family. The Church accordingly affirms defining marriage as the legal and lawful union between a man and a woman.