Parish Priest.

One eyed Jack · 23-01-2015 12:24AM

kneemos wrote: »

Thought protestant religions always referred to their clergy by name.

I dunno that many protestants really to ask, never came up I guess, and the priest has no problem with it or I'm sure she'd have mentioned it by now...

Calling your priest father infers subservience and I thought was out dated at this stage.

Nah, never really thought of it as subservience, just out of respect for the fact that he's a priest really. Someone mentioned earlier that they call their doctor by his first name, I wouldn't do that either, I just call him 'Dr. ...'

Made the mistake of calling my consultant 'Dr. ...' once, he just told me he wasn't a doctor, no big deal really.

Desolation Of Smug · 23-01-2015 12:25AM

Not very often, generally. G'way to feck.

23-01-2015 12:27AM

Neil3030 wrote: »

Father, unless requested otherwise. I disagree with just about everything the organisation stands for, but they spent 7 years earning their title so fair is fair.

THey haven not earned the title with me

A bit tongue in cheek but in america you can put the word revernd before your name and never have to pay for it or confirm it.

But in the real world normally when someone introduces themselves as "Father" something I later just call them "Mr." something - and I have never been questioned on it. Actually 100% of the time when I failed to buy into the "father" thing the guy just responded with "oh just call me X" where X was micheal or peter or whatever

6 post? Ive lost track already dammit!

c_man · 23-01-2015 12:39AM

kneemos wrote: »

What do you call you local priest?

"The next Pope"

irish coldplayer · 23-01-2015 12:43AM

Strumms · 23-01-2015 01:35AM

Well, how do you address anyone whose name you don't know ?

Story bud in allz in anywayz... Is civil but not too forward.

PizzamanIRL · 23-01-2015 01:38AM

I call him bruv.

Chucken · 23-01-2015 03:37AM

I genuinely don't know the priests name. There used be 2 here but I think there's only one now. I know the Dean (C.O.I) by first name though. Gary.

He has the most wonderful South African accent...

AlanS181824 · 23-01-2015 03:46AM

Father.... I guess.

RebelSoul · 23-01-2015 03:48AM

A dickhead

DeadHand · 23-01-2015 03:48AM

SweetChaos wrote: »

Hiya Peado hows it going?

I dont know I dont go to church so I dont mix with the clergy

Catholics in Ireland don't "go to church".

Quite a few still go to mass.

The clergy appear in places other than churches.

Unnecessarily kicking the clergy isn't brave, edgy or original anymore. It's easy, cliched and safe. Many who do were/would have been as docile as lambs around the clergy when they dominated public life.

DeadHand · 23-01-2015 03:51AM

I'll always address a Catholic priest as "Father". That's his title.

I don't see it as an expression of faith or subservience. I'm prone to neither.

RebelSoul · 23-01-2015 03:54AM

DeadHand wrote: »

Catholics in Ireland don't "go to church".

Quite a few still go to mass.

The clergy appear in places other than churches.

Unnecessarily kicking the clergy isn't brave, edgy or original anymore. It's easy, cliched and safe. Many who do were/would have been as docile as lambs around the clergy when they dominated public life.

Stop... It's not smart what you are doing.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 23-01-2015 03:59AM

Merrion wrote: »

That would be an ecumenical matter... ?

You address me by my porper title, ya little bollix!

Grayson · 23-01-2015 09:15AM

DeadHand wrote: »

Catholics in Ireland don't "go to church".

Quite a few still go to mass.

The clergy appear in places other than churches.

Unnecessarily kicking the clergy isn't brave, edgy or original anymore. It's easy, cliched and safe. Many who do were/would have been as docile as lambs around the clergy when they dominated public life.

lesson learned here. Going to go back to the bowing and the scraping.

Micky Dolenz · 23-01-2015 09:30AM

Normally Father, shur it's only a title.

I seem to know a lot of priests currently and I call them by their first name as I'd see them when they are in civilian clothes.

Brian? · 23-01-2015 09:37AM

How does one spot a "parish priest" these days, unless one attends mass? I can honestly say I've been living in the same town for 2 years now and I've never seen a priest wandering about.

Do they camouflage themselves as normal now?

If I met one I'd call him "horse", the way I call everyone else horse.

FluffyAngel · 23-01-2015 09:43AM

Brian? wrote: »

If I met one I'd call him "horse", the way I call everyone else horse.

i can see how that would work in the bedroom ,all i have to do now is remove the image from my head

syklops · 23-01-2015 09:49AM

Truffle Pig wrote: »

Is it?

Ive not had a dilemma of this gargantuan scale since "Daddy or chips"

hairyslug · 23-01-2015 09:49AM

Around my way, we call call him Da

23-01-2015 09:50AM

I said it before: All titles are an anachronism and should be abandoned (Mr Mrs Dr Ms etc.)

anncoates · 23-01-2015 09:51AM

Father, I suppose, out of politeness, unless I knew them well enough to use their name.

It's a a load of bollocks to me but going out of my way to do otherwise would be giving it too much thought.

Valetta · 23-01-2015 10:07AM

kneemos wrote: »

Thought protestant religions always referred to their clergy by name.

Calling your priest father infers subservience and I thought was out dated at this stage.

I've no idea how you see it as subservient?

What do you call your own father or mother?

kneemos · 23-01-2015 10:21AM

Valetta wrote: »

I've no idea how you see it as subservient?

What do you call your own father or mother?

Father or mother,but they're not random strangers.

Why do they need a title that sets them apart,nobody else does.
Even priests aren't bothered about it these days.

Valetta · 23-01-2015 10:23AM

kneemos wrote: »

Father or mother,but they're not random strangers.

Why do they need a title that sets them apart,nobody else does.
Even priests aren't bothered about it these days.

If your parish priest is a random stranger, why would you be addressing him at all?

One eyed Jack · 23-01-2015 10:31AM

kneemos wrote: »

Father or mother,but they're not random strangers.

Why do they need a title that sets them apart,nobody else does.
Even priests aren't bothered about it these days.

As someone else said kneemos, you're thinking way too much about this whole thing. Most people simply use it maybe once in greeting a priest, it's not like anyone's on their knees slobbering over anyone? I'd greet nuns the same way with "Sister...".

Priests aren't bothered by it because they don't particularly care I imagine, but some people I've met are indeed a bit anal about their titles. We'd a thread on PhD titles a while back, some people use them, some people don't.

Grayson · 23-01-2015 10:55AM

kneemos wrote: »

Thought protestant religions always referred to their clergy by name.

Calling your priest father infers subservience and I thought was out dated at this stage.

dumb bit of trivia. Protestants etc have Ministers. Catholics have priests. It's because of the Eucharist. Catholics believe that they are making a sacrifice during the Eucharist. That makes the person in charge a priest. Priests are guys who sacrifice animals etc. So the Mayans, Aztecs and Catholics have priests.

Protestants believe the Eucharist is symbolic so it isn't an actual sacrifice. Since they don't sacrifice anything they have ministers.

It's also the reason Catholics refer to the time they spend in church as mass and protestants call it a service.
(Note: some Protestants do actually call it mass but that annoys some very pedantic Catholics)
(Also note: The above is really just the orthodox catholic line. Most people really don't care)

Frigga_92 · 23-01-2015 11:08AM

Brian? wrote: »

If I met one I'd call him "horse", the way I call everyone else horse.

My husband calls everyone Ted so...

DeadHand · 23-01-2015 12:39PM

Grayson wrote: »

lesson learned here. Going to go back to the bowing and the scraping.

As you well know, I said nothing about bowing and scraping.

I believe any religion should exert no influence over anyone but it's adherents and that religion has no place in the law or governance of a state.

What I do find distasteful are the lazy, unnecessary, unthinking attacks we see here and elsewhere on the Church. Going out of your way to brand all priests pedophiles on a perfectly innocuous thread about how to address a parish priest, for example.

Don't get me wrong, the Church richly deserved most of the flak it's taken in recent years. The castration it's undergone in terms of power and influence in recent decades has been thoroughly just and needed.

Still, I find the unoriginal, puerile and personalised slating of it by keyboard warriors who falsely believe it makes them look brave and progressive to be tiresome. Especially since many of the same gallants are subscribers to the current herd mentality and are now slavish devotees to the modern dogmas of political correctness, equality and anti-religious sentiment (against all religions but Islam, which they defend vigorously and submit to readily. Funny that. The phrase "easy targets" springs to mind).

I theorise the same bovine thinkers would have made for ardent Catholics 30-40 years ago.

A herd mind is a herd mind, all that changes is the herd's direction.

Un Croissant · 23-01-2015 02:07PM

The only way to address your parents is Mam and Dad (Dad and Dad, Mam and Mam to make sure ive covered all gendered parents

) Anyone who says mummy, mother, father etc creep me right out.

Hello Father, how is Mother?

**** that.

Parish Priest.

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