The Name YHWH & Catholic Churches
The Vatican recently ruled that the name Yahweh can’t be “used or pronounced” in Catholic Masses. The Vatican’s document explains that the name Yahweh was “held to be unpronounceable and hence was replaced during the reading of sacred Scripture by means of the use of an alternate name: ‘Adonai,’ which means ‘Lord.’” The letter also states: “Avoiding pronouncing the Tetragrammaton of the name of God on the part of the church has therefore its own grounds. Apart from a motive of a purely philological order, there is also that of remaining faithful to the church’s tradition, from the beginning, that the sacred Tetragrammaton was never pronounced in the Christian context nor translated into any of the languages into which the Bible was translated.”
But the dudes at the Vatican must realize that Moses and all the Iron Age Israelites said “Yahweh” all the time. They even named their kids after Yahweh.
