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PAGE 15 — The Georgia Bulletin, February 19, 1987 Conference Told Catholics Suffering An Identity Crisis CONVENT STATION, N.J. (NC)-U.S. Catholics are “selling out” their rich Christian heritage for a piece of the American dream, a speaker told a Feb. 2-5 conference on faith and culture. Michael Schwartz, form er director of public af fairs for the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, was keynote speaker at the conference in Convent Station spon sored by the Pallottine In stitute for Lay Leadership and Apostolate Research. The approximately 100 participants studied the im pact of Catholicism on American culture, but Schwartz, now on the staff of the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation in Washington, chose to look at American "The Mission" In Running For Six Oscar Awards BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (NC) - “The Mission,” a film about 18th-century Jesuit missionaries in South America, has been nominated for best picture of 1986 and for six other Oscars in the 59th Academy Awards race. The nominations were announced in Beverly Hills Feb. 11. The Warner Brothers movie, produced by Fernando Ghia and David Puttnam and directed by Roland Joffe, stars Jeremy Irons and Robert De Niro as Jesuits ordered by the Vatican to abandon their Indian mission when its lands are taken over by Portugal. After the Jesuits on the mission refuse to leave, they are killed in a battle between the Indians and Portuguese troops. In addition to being nominated for best film, the movie also was nominated for Oscars in art direction, cinematography, costume design, directing, film editing and original score. Only the movies “Platoon” and “Room With a View,” with eight nominations each, are up for more awards. When it opened last fall, “The Mission" was given an A-III — adults — classifica tion by the U.S. Catholic Conference Department of Communication. The USCC said it contained historical flaws and omissions. Jesuit Father Daniel Berrigan, the anti war activist who had a small part in the film and was a consultant for it, later said the film was accurate despite putting 150 years of history into two hours. “It’s fiction based on fact,” Father Ber rigan said. “The Jesuits are portrayed ac curately. There’s not a mean-spirited or narrow line in the whole thing. They lived that way. They loved the Indians very deeply." Father Berrigan said the cardinal who delivered the Vatican order to abandon the mission “was a very wonderful and principled man but he was trapped. He chose an awful way out to avoid a worse one.” culture’s impact on Ca tholicism. Schwartz said Cathol icism is in a position to fill the void in a contemporary America “in search of its soul, in search of a reason to live.” “But at the very time this opportunity presents itself, Catholicism in America suffers an identity crisis of its own,” he said. “The newcomers whose mission was to transform this nation had themselves been transformed,” he said. “The manifold attrac tions of America as it was... seduced most Catholics away” from evangelizing during the 19th century, he said. The “honeymoon” be tween American Catholics and “the secular culture to which they have sur rendered” might have gone on if it had not been for the anti-abortion fight, he said. “We desperately wanted to be accepted. But we were still Catholics, not bar barians. We draw the line at murdering the young,” he said. He said the right-to-life movement could have been a vehicle to convert A- merica to a culture infused with Catholicism. ‘‘If Americans could be con vinced that respect for life was a great first principle of social existence, they would be ready to listen to everything else the church teaches about social justice.” But, he said, the move ment has become split, a problem that is remedial and not as painful as “the general loss of identity and direction among American Catholics." He added, “It is not, I am saying, the church which must change to accom modate to the things of the world, but the world which must be transformed, fold ed under the mantle of the bride of Christ. But I fear that American Catholics, at least in the present, lack either the understanding or the will to attempt this con version.” Another speaker, Ed Marciniak, a board mem ber and secretary of the MOVING? 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