Stigmatized

Why is masturbation so stigmatized?

This gift of the Lord is not confined to past centuries. It still exists in full strength in our days. Catherine Emmerich, who died in 1824, is an example of it, and a stigmatized Saint still nearer to our times, for she did not die until 1885, Catherine Putigny, the sister of the Visitation, was seen in two parts of Metz at one and the same time.