It's hyperbole. Jesus has no problem with you calling your male parent "Father", or "Dad", or anything similar. Neither does he evidently have a problem with calling a spiritual leader "Father," since St. Paul, writing under divine inspiration, calls himself exactly that in 1 Cor 4:15.
Jesus would rather you called nobody "Father" except God, however, if you're going to call people conspiring to kill him "Fathers". See the context of Mt 23:9.
I KNEW someone would say "you call your dad, father"
Yes, but I do not call him "THE HOLY FATHER"...calling Karol (the "pope") THE Father leaves no room for our real father.
And I think the thing that Jesus was trying to have us avoid in not looking up to someone that much, is so that no man becomes such a center for worship that Karol has become. And all the "popes" before him, and all the "popes" after him. Karol is no more or less important a man than ANY other man...yes, even that hobo on the side of the road...but you would probably think me daft if I referred to a hobo as THE Holy Father...and you would be right...