"And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven." Matthew 23:9
While some attack Catholics for calling priests "father," these same show themselves to be malicious hypocrites by calling their male parent "father" or "dad" or "pop" and even call their parent's male parent "grandfather" or "grandpa" etc. Further, they speak of "teachers" at school.
Clearly, our Lord does not mean that we cannot use the words "father" or "teacher" - but only that we recognize that all true authority comes from God.
We then consider the great gift of papal authority, and how the Catholic should approach all papal teaching.
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