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Theology Professor Compares Private Masses With Masturbation

Massimo Faggioli, a pro-Francis theology professor at Villanova University, suggested that Mass without congregation is a form of “liturgical onanism.” The now-deleted tweet (March 31) was made public …More
Massimo Faggioli, a pro-Francis theology professor at Villanova University, suggested that Mass without congregation is a form of “liturgical onanism.”
The now-deleted tweet (March 31) was made public by Joseph Shaw of the English Latin Mass Society.
It said, “In the Catholic Church, some are using this pandemic for a theological agenda that reveals itself in liturgical onanism (like the document of the bishops of Umbria, Italy), but goes beyond that and needs to be addressed.“
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Genesis 38:
8 Then Judah said to Onan, 'Take your brother's wife, and do your dutyas her brother-in-law, to maintain your brother's line.'
9 But Onan, knowing that the line would not count as his, spilt his seed on the ground every time he slept with his brother's wife, to avoid providing offspring for his brother.
10 What he did was offensive to Yahweh, who killed him too.More
Genesis 38:

8 Then Judah said to Onan, 'Take your brother's wife, and do your dutyas her brother-in-law, to maintain your brother's line.'

9 But Onan, knowing that the line would not count as his, spilt his seed on the ground every time he slept with his brother's wife, to avoid providing offspring for his brother.

10 What he did was offensive to Yahweh, who killed him too.