Should Catholics Call Priests Father

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.9 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

One of the most common Bible verses people use to try and debunk Catholic teaching is Matthew 23:9, where Jesus says, “Call no man on earth father.” In this episode, Fr. Mike Schmitz guides us through the New Testament to give us the context and significance of this teaching. By the end of this episode, you will see that Christ’s words here have much deeper meaning than what many people would believe.

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0:00.0	Here we go, and not wasting any time with silly little accents or with comments about
0:06.1	nothing in particular.
0:07.9	We're going to get started.
0:08.9	We're going to get started now.
0:14.3	My name is Father Mike Smith and this is Ascension Presents.
0:17.2	Actually, let's talk about that.
0:19.0	Let's talk about, I didn't say hi and this is Mike Smith.
0:21.8	I said, hi, this is Father Mike Smith and people are like, wait, what the?
0:25.9	Listen.
0:26.9	I don't know the whole Bible, but I do know that Jesus said, call no man Father and yet
0:31.6	here you are, we call our priest's Father, right?
0:34.3	That's very interesting.
0:35.3	We call the Pope the Holy Father.
0:37.4	He in Italy is called Il Papa, right?
0:40.6	I don't know.
0:41.6	I don't know if that does mean potato because I think Papa and Papa, I'm not sure, one
0:45.9	of the things means potato.
0:46.9	But that means Dad.
0:47.9	Are we going against Jesus as word?
0:49.8	Because Jesus said, call no man on earth Father.
0:52.0	Matthew 23.
0:54.0	The first thing I want to say is if we're ever, ever tempted to dismiss the words of Jesus,
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