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.“