The Pope's recent decree: As a sign of utmost respect (for an unpronouncable word, too), it's not to be said (during services).
Christmas dinner informed me of this recent Catholic directive.
Actually, I thought they were saying Catholics weren't supposed to ever say the word again, for some reason.
Me being crazy, I thought it might have had something to do with the JW's, or the Pope thinking YHWH was dead in this day and age and there's a new God, or even a kind of chess move against my silly blog nuttiness (I'm crazy enough to think the Pope reads my blog, lol), but it turns out he's just staying true to what he's pretty certain was the original intent of the hebrew, which was to omit the vowels, have it as an unpronounceable (or of undefined pronunciation) written-word-only name of God, which by tradition in Judaism (the religion of Jesus....are we all Jews now?) went translated as other stuff.
Extra, extra, read all about it.
12 hours ago
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