This news is even older but maybe someone hasn't heard of it. The Vatican has ruled that the divine name is no longer to be heard in the liturgy, effectively nixing at least one popular song that (at least in its original form) uses the Y-word. Citing Jewish and first-century Christian practice, the Vatican said that the name is unpronounceable. "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 philogical 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."
This is pretty funny because just the other day we were discussing the Tetragrammaton in bible study (we're in Exodus) and I was reflecting on my tendency to agree with the Jews that it should not be pronounced. I was thinking of asking the priest leading it what he thought but first I asked if a certain word in the text was the Tetragrammaton, not wishing to pronounce it. He said it was, and asked me to explain to the group what the Tetragrammaton was. I hesitated since I thought he was asking me to pronounce it, but he only wanted the letters. He then went on into uncomfortable detail about how to pronounce it, which answered my unasked question.
There is a danger in violating the commandment not to take the name of the Lord in vain when we bandy about the Divine Name, even if it is for ostensibly legitimate purposes. It should be treated with the utmost respect, just as the Ark of the Covenant was. So the easiest way to do this is simple to not pronounce it.
