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Struggling to Build Paradise on Earth

The Mission offers one of the best depictions of Christian redemption ever filmed but is marred by its 'liberation theology'bias.

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by John Prizer, Register correspondent Sunday, Sep 20, 1998 11:00 AM Comment

The Church is the hands and feet of Christ on earth. Her mission is to preach the Gospel and do good works. The Church is also an institution in the real world, and at times her organizational work clashes with her spiritual goals.

The Mission, winner of the 1986 Cannes Film Festival's highest award, dramatizes one of these conflicts. The action is set in the 1750s in Latin America where the...

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