Are Catholics bound to respect religious titles of Protestants?

[pablope]

It is interesting topic. I am a Non-Catholic i have catholic friends and frequently have meetings with Catholic Preists. I have a meeting next week in fact with a Pastor of a local Catholic Church. He addresses himself as “Father Mike” I do not address him by that title not out of disrespect but out of obediance to Jesus.

Mathew 23:9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
In that same chapter he aslo says not to be Known as “Rabi” or “Master”

In…Mark 11:9-10
And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.

So let me ask…within earshot of Jesus, why does He not rebuke or stop the Jews from calling David…“our father David”?

Can you explain what is Paul saying here to Timothy…1 Timothy 5:1
Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

 

[Rawb]

I wonder about this as regards only one or two titles, specifically “Father” and “Mother.”

These are not so much titles to me as descriptors of a relationship. In Orthodoxy we call our priest “Father” because he is our spiritual father (it is the same in Roman Catholicism). We call certain nuns “Mother” if they act to us as a spiritual mother or are an abbess. When we meet a new priest or nun we may call them Father or Mother by virtue of their being in that relationship with us from having been in the same church. We also will sometimes call a Deacon “Father Deacon” and we call monks “Father” as well (they call each other “Brother” but nonmonks would call them “Father” even if they were not ordained)

What then, am I to do with someone regularly addressed as Father who is not my Father? I’ve no problem with “Your Holiness” because I do know the Pope strives for holiness, or “Your Grace” because I do know other bishops are very often exemplars of God’s grace. They’re also bishops, in a secular sense even if I do not know the actual status of their ordination (an argument for a different time).

So I do wish there was a term we could use for priests of other churches that do not imply that a relationship there exists when it does not. “Reverend” or “Pastor” or something, but that’s probably more awkward to use than is worth it.

 

[porthos11]

This is a kind of random topic, but I haven’t really been able to find anything that touches on this at all (maybe I’m looking in the wrong places?.

I am Catholic. Let’s say I run into an Anglican bishop or something, let’s say the Archbishop of Banterbury. Do I need to call him “Most Reverend”?

We’re not bound, as in on pain of sin. It’s simply the proper and respectful thing to do. The same is expected of Protestants to call the Pope “Your Holiness.”

 

[Makko52]

In…Mark 11:9-10
And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.

So let me ask…within earshot of Jesus, why does He not rebuke or stop the Jews from calling David…“our father David”?

Can you explain what is Paul saying here to Timothy…1 Timothy 5:1
Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

i take it as not to address anyone as your SPIRITUAL father. Becuase no one can give spiritual birth but God himself. Ment no disrespect.
kind regards.