Q: A Baptist friend asked me, “Why do we call priests ‘Father’ when Jesus told us not to call anyone on earth ‘father?'†How would you answer this question?This question refers to Jesus’s teaching found in the Gospel of St. Matthew, when He said, “Do not call anyone on earth your father. Only One is your Father, the One in heaven†(Mt 23:9). Taken literally, we would have to wonder why we do use this title “Father†when Jesus seems to forbid it. First, we must remember the context of the passage. Jesus is addressing the hypocrisy of the...