The Spanish Episcopal Conference awards ‘Lux’ by Rosalía and ‘Los Domingos’ by Ruiz de Azúa | Culture | EUROtoday

This Thursday, the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE) awarded Rosalía for her album Lux and the movie director Alauda Ruiz de Azúa for her movie Sundays, on the 56th version of the ¡Bravo! Awards 2025. With these recognitions the Church acknowledges “the meritorious work of all those communication professionals in the various media, who have distinguished themselves for their service to the dignity of man, human rights or evangelical values.” Luis Argüello, president of the Episcopal Conference, had already acknowledged within the Plenary Assembly of the EEC that each Lux as Sundays They speak in regards to the “Catholic turn” that of their opinion society is experiencing. “This expression that has also had artistic expressions, an album by an extraordinary Spanish singer,” he mentioned, later including in regards to the movie: “A work of cinema, an expression also, in one way or another, of beauty.”

The Archbishop of Tarragona, Joan Planellas, additionally acknowledged that Rosalía’s new album is a “song for the light that young people need to find and religion can help them,” and the Bishop of Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Xabier Gómez, wrote a Sunday letter to the artist and mentioned that he want to have a espresso along with her. In his writing he mentioned: “When you talk about a thirst that the world cannot satisfy, that only God can fill that void, the search for meaning that runs through the film comes to mind. Andrei Rublevby Tarkovsky. Like him, you seem to experience art as a spiritual journey, where creation is a form of pilgrimage towards what transcends.”

Sundays by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa has additionally been well known, even successful the Golden Shell on the 73rd version of the San Sebastián pageant. The movie tells the story of a 17-year-old woman from an upper-middle class household in Bilbao, who’s educated in a spiritual faculty and proclaims to these near her that she desires to be a nun and enter a cloistered convent.

The particular prize awarded by the Spanish Episcopal Conference has gone to journalist Fernando Ónega, who was press chief of former president Adolfo Suárez. The author Javier Cercas, creator of the e book The madman of God on the finish of the world, in regards to the late Pope Francis, has been highlighted within the press class.

The awards ceremony might be on May 17, inside the framework of the sixtieth World Communications Day in 2026.