Why do they call their priests "Father"?

It's a sex thing between priests and little children. Having everyone call him "daddy" would be too awkward, and is only allowed during "private sessions" with young children, so they have to dress it up for the public by using the term "father"

Thanks Backfire fr morally killing the convo 😬

It had to be done.

Originally posted by debbiejo
Hmmmmm...Maybe I'll look up the "True Church", Church of Christ...and find some fallacies to post as well.

Among other things, this movement
has a prideful, elitist attitude,
frequently engages in dishonest recruitment practices,
has a heavy-handed approach to authority
employs a controversial discipling system, and
misrepresents the Bible's teachings regarding grace, baptism, and salvation

A friend of mines wife attended a church of Christ and is it true that they post your tithing or giving to the church on a public board? If so, that is a form of manipulation.

The True Church which Christ has founded never enforced "TITHING" to the members.

Originally posted by Jury
Hmmmmm... You are describing a NOT "True Church of Christ", deb.

The True Church which Christ has founded never enforced "TITHING" to the members.

Your information isn't true catholic support. Doesn't change the fact you still claim it is.

Originally posted by PrinceofBlades
Your information isn't true catholic support. Doesn't change the fact you still claim it is.

Ok. So, Rev. Leslie Rumble (a Catholic Priest), author of Another Thousand Radio Replies, who once said:

"I was brought up as a Protestant, probably with more inherited prejudices than most non-Catholics of these days. My parents were Anglican and taught me the Angelican faith. My 'broad-minded' protestant teachers taught me to dislike the Catholic Church intensely. I later tried Protestantism in various other forms, and it is some thirty years since, in God's providence, I became a Catholic. As for the 'open, free, sincere worship' of a Protestant Church, I tasted it, but for me it proved in the end to be not only open, but empty; it was altogether too free from God's prescriptions."

“Catholics rightly, therefore call the priest ‘father’, not to the exclusion of their Father in heaven, but as a manifestation on earth of the supreme Fatherhood of God in the spiritual order, even as an earthly parent is a similar manifestation of that same Fatherhood in the natural order.”

The books "Radio Replies" have IMPRIMATURS from Catholic authorities. So, don't they have Catholic support?

Since you don't believe in one of your priests who proclaimed that the "Fatherhood" of the priests is the Fatherhood of God in heaven, I may ask you then Prince:

Is the Fatherhood of God in heaven also the Fatherhood of the Catholic priests? What do you think? Yes or No.

"...Martrydom is no exception. For martrydom is the sacrifise from man to God. But the mass is the sacrifise from God to man." Cur'd Ars.

The priest does not change the words to "And he said take this...this was his body...this was his blood." But rather they keep it as if we were still in calvary. Because when we participate in the mass we are talking part of that even that happened 2,000 years ago. And there is only one person who can ever relive that sacrifise and that is God. So I believe that at a certain point of the mass, Christ enters the priest and makes his sacrifise new again. Just like Christ enters the priest during reconciliation. That is my belief. So to answer your question, Is the Fatherhood of God in Heaven also the Fatherhood of the Catholic Priest? No, it's even better. Because God must transpire through Humans to achieve a goal. But to be God in heven, he can do that alone...

pokey

Originally posted by PrinceofBlades
"...Martrydom is no exception. For martrydom is the sacrifise from man to God. But the mass is the sacrifise from God to man." Cur'd Ars.

The priest does not change the words to "And he said take this...this was his body...this was his blood." But rather they keep it as if we were still in calvary. Because when we participate in the mass we are talking part of that even that happened 2,000 years ago. And there is only one person who can ever relive that sacrifise and that is God. So I believe that at a certain point of the mass, Christ enters the priest and makes his sacrifise new again. Just like Christ enters the priest during reconciliation. That is my belief. So to answer your question, Is the Fatherhood of God in Heaven also the Fatherhood of the Catholic Priest? No, it's even better. Because God must transpire through Humans to achieve a goal. But to be God in heven, he can do that alone...

Originally posted by Jury
And where did the Mass originated?
So you mean that the priest can be BETTER than the Fatherhood of God?
In what aspect?

It orginated on Calvary, the night Christ transfigurated the bread and wine into his body and Blood. And I didn't say the priest way was better, I said God's way was better. Look at how you asked the question.

Originally posted by PrinceofBlades
It orginated on Calvary, the night Christ transfigurated the bread and wine into his body and Blood. And I didn't say the priest way was better, I said God's way was better. Look at how you asked the question.

WHAT is the Fatherhood of the Catholic priest?