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Some scholars hear in fados "the sweet crying" of African slave songs or Gregorian chants. By the 18th century, Portuguese sailors were singing the sad songs to prostitutes, who sang them to aristocrats and other opinion makers. The first great fadista was Maria Severa, a gypsy prostitute who sang in a low-life casa do fado in the 1830s. She devoted her 26 dissolute years to bed and bullfights, wine and fado, and her legend is so much with the Portuguese that fadistas still wear black shawls in mourning...
Ironically, re-examination of this central Protestant doctrine could some day lead to a gradual healing of the breach between Rome and Reformation. Dr. Johannes Witte of Rome's Gregorian University, one of two Roman Catholic observers at the assembly, argued that many modern Lutheran interpretations of justification, by stressing the life of faith rather than the initial encounter with God, are moving closer to Catholic doctrine. And Catholic scholars are quick to notice the similarities: in a 1957 book that rocked German theological circles, Father Hans Kiing of Tiibingen argued that Karl Earth's understanding of justification...
...less austere language of teaching that would speak to modern man. Montini, trained in the ways of scholastic thought, is more conservative by temperament, yet also seems to be tolerant toward the new. Through Augustin Cardinal Bea, he notified Scriptural scholars at the Pontifical Biblical Institute and Gregorian University that there would be no more arbitrary monita (warnings) issued by conservative theologians at the Holy Office...
...symbolism and ceremony that was meaningful to a 12th century Roman is lost on a 20th century African. Mission priests have asked to use more native music and dances as part of the rite; an American liturgist even suggested the use of Negro spirituals in some services. "The Gregorian chant is splendid," said one English bishop, "but the church is neither a theater nor a conservatory of music...
...Jesuit general asked Bea why he was not sending more of his promising students to Rome. When Bea replied, "Because we have better schools here." the general made him superior of the Jesuit house for doctoral studies in Rome. In addition, Bea began teaching scripture at the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Pontifical Biblical Institute. Bea has written nine books and almost 300 articles on scriptural problems, and admits his own debt to Protestant scholarship...