[Elsie]

Should we also not be called instructors, or Teachers, or leaders, or masters, or directors?

Not wanting to muddy the water further; I'd suggest to you catholics to do whatever your OFFICIAL, chosen translation says:

Matthew 23:9    Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)

 

  And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven.

[rwa265]

I know what you’ve suggested about father. But if Matthew 23:9 tells Christians to call no one father, doesn’t Matthew 23:10 tell Christians that we are not to be called one or another of those other titles, depending on which version of the bible we read?

[kosciusko51]

Not to mention the verses about cutting off hands and plucking out eyes...