Papal Holy Father Catholics refer to the pope as the "Holy Father". It is merely a title. Christians agree or disagree with whether this appropriate. Why Catholics use the term "Holy Father" ・ He is called upon to practi...
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Pope is called the Holy Father. Now I see that that the Bible is true, what does the Bible say? ... Pope is called the Holy Father, this is a title for God only (Matthew 23:9) Jesus also addressed to God the Father as he said;
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CATHOLIC TRADITION - Pope called Holy Father. ... The pope is a man who takes upon himself honor which belongs to no human being. Even the very name by which he allows himself to be called (Holy Father) is highly presumptuous and blasphemous (see above).
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The name given to the Supreme head of the Roman Catholic Church; from papa, father. The pope is often called the Holy Father (Ed-see John 17:11).
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We find life in communion with the One who is life in person - in communion with the living God, a communion into which we are introduced by the Holy Spirit, who is called in the hymn of Vespers "fons vivus", ... The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the Spirit who unites the Father with the Son in Love,
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POST-SYNODAL; APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION;; OF THE HOLY FATHER;; TO THE BISHOPS, CLERGY, CONSECRATED PERSONS; AND THE LAY FAITHFUL; ON THE EUCHARIST; ... At creation itself, man was called to have some share in God's breath of life (cf. Gen 2:7). But it is in Christ, dead and risen, and in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit,
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They called Him the Super Pope, holy father, our father and Father of Catholicism. Many a Christian believer, being interviewed, never once stated that what the Catholic Church has been doing was against the Scriptures.
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The Holy Father calls recourse to the death penalty “unnecessary” and painfully reminds us that our “model of society bears the stamp of the culture of death, and is therefore in opposition to the Gospel message.” (Pope John Paul II, World Day of the Sick, Washington, DC, February 2003)
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At the opening ceremony on July 25 one of the young people who was chosen to give a welcoming speech to the pope called him "Holy Father" and "Your Holiness" and stated, "You are our compass when we need guidance;
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