[MamaB]

I will be 72 soon and I have never heard anyone refer to their dad as father. It was always Dad, Pops, Pa, etc. I called my dad Pa since that is what my oldest nephew called him. I am 2 years older than he. Even my great granddaughters refer to him as Pa. They were born years after his death but we all talk about my parents. They have seen pictures of them, too.

[metmom]

What is generally ignored in that disobeying the command to call no man Father, is that Jesus is addressing religious leaders and titles assigned to them.

For all Catholics demand context when it suits them, they ignore it when it suits them.

The context is calling religious leaders by the title of *Father*. It does not address at all a child calling his or her male parent *Dad*, *Daddy*, whatever.....

[Elsie]

Whipper-snapper!

[terycarl]

>i>I will be 72 soon and I have never heard anyone refer to their dad as father. It was always Dad, Pops, Pa, etc. I called my dad Pa since that is what my oldest nephew called him. I am 2 years older than he. Even my great granddaughters refer to him as Pa. They were born years after his death but we all talk about my parents. They have seen pictures of them, too. p> 72, wow, that's old!!!!!I turned 77 on Jan.2 I've always thought, as does almost everyone else, that everybody on Earth has a father and a mother.....if there is a doubt, the court doesn't take a dna sample and declare the man to be the daddy of the child....he is the Father....Father is the physical relationship as is mother, daddy is a very special, personal, and meaningful relationship....surpassing that of father.

Everyone has a father, unfortunately, not everyone has a daddy.