[NYer]

For the benefit of non-catholic visitors who have a problem with the catholic use of the word "Father" to address a priest:

Catholics know that as members of a parish, they have been committed to a priest’s spiritual care, thus they have great filial affection for priests and call them "father." Priests, in turn, follow the apostles’ biblical example by referring to members of their flock as "my son" or "my child" (cf. Gal. 4:19; 1 Tim. 1:18; 2 Tim. 2:1; Philem. 10; 1 Pet. 5:13; 1 John 2:1; 3 John 4).

All of these passages were written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and they express the infallibly recorded truth that Christ’s ministers do have a role as spiritual fathers. Jesus is not against acknowledging that. It is he who gave these men their role as spiritual fathers, and it is his Holy Spirit who recorded this role for us in the pages of Scripture. To acknowledge spiritual fatherhood is to acknowledge the truth, and no amount of anti-Catholic grumbling will change that fact.

Call No Man "Father"?

[nickcarraway]

Carter was president. Why didn’t he crack down on such an evil cult when he had the chance?

[nickcarraway]

Carter was president. Why didn’t he crack down on such an evil cult when he had the chance?

[Mastador1]

Well the answer is simple, stay the F*C* out out other peoples religion if you don’t like it. Isn’t that SUPPOSED to be one of the founding principles of our country, freedom of religion? Why , oh why, couldn’t the Founding Fathers have put a Freedom From Clymers clause in the Constitution! It would have saved us from people like Carter, Gore, Pelosi, Reid and so many,many others!

[informavoracious]

And the Catholics make women enter through separate doors and worship separately from the men. And if a Catholic woman is raped, she is stoned for adultery. And little Catholic girls undergo FGM at puberty. And Catholic girls get acid thrown in their faces for spurning Catholic boys. Right.

MYOB Jimmy.

[Vaquero]

Sez in peanuts biography that james earl carter be a baptist.

So yimmy. Deal with your own faith And let the RCs deal with theirs

[workerbee]

I can’t wait not to watch this dork’s funeral.

[CdMGuy]

The second worst President of the United States, the self-proclaimed Southern Baptist, the known anti-Semite and anti-Catholic now has the audacity to tell the Catholic Church that the Church should allow the ordination of women. Next, he will be telling Jews to move their Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday.

[fwdude]

I'd like to point out that the Catholic Church explicitly teaches that the greatest human person ever created is the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Uh, the Scriptures beg to differ. It was the Prophet John.

[Sergio]

Thank you for the informative post.

[CatherineofAragon]

"And I think the great religions have set the example for that, by ordaining, in effect, that women are not equal to men in the eyes of God. This has been done and still is done by the Catholic Church ever since the third century, when the Catholic Church ordained that a woman cannot be a priest for instance but a man can. A woman can be a nurse or a teacher but she can’t be a priest."

So what? A man can be a priest but he can't give birth to a child. Men and women are different, but differences do not amount to inequality.

Jesus scandalized His disciples by talking with the Samaritan woman at the well. The Bible clearly shows the love of God for His children, both male and female. There is no inequality in Christianity.

Maybe the peanut farmer should tackle the way women are viewed/treated by Muslims and by their false god. That's next up, no doubt. /s

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Whenever Jimmuh comments about Catholicism, or even Judaism, it should be regarded as if the comments had come from a “moderate” Muslim Imam. Perhaps even less so.

Carter failed at his original religion. Then, when they refused to change their beliefs as he wanted them to, he left them in a huff.

Bottom line: Jimmuh just does not grasp the whole “religion” thing. Likely he is unable to even grasp the idea of a spiritual God, any more than other primitive people don’t grasp that their gods are not the same as the graven idols of their gods.

[yarddog]

Jimmy Carter, still harming the country after all these years.

[avenir]

I appreciate the author describing Catholic doctrine, and immediately have to ask “Where is all of that in Scripture?”

[Lee N. Field]

Jimmah vs. the cult of the BVM

A plaque on both their houses?