This Thursday, the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE) awarded Rosalía the Prize for her album Lux And film director Alaa Ruiz de Azua for her film Sundays, In the 56th edition of ¡Bravo! Awards 2025. With these honours, the Church recognizes “the meritorious work of all communications professionals in various media, who have distinguished themselves in their service to human dignity, human rights or evangelical values”. Luis Argüello, President of the Episcopal Conference, had already stated at the General Assembly of the European Economic Community that both… Lux like Sundays They talk about the “Catholic turn” that society is experiencing in their view. He said: “This expression, which also had artistic expressions, an album by an exceptional Spanish singer,” and later added about the film: “A work of cinema, and also an expression, in one way or another, of beauty.”
The Archbishop of Tarragona, Joan Planellas, also stated that Rosalía’s new album is “a song of the light that young people need to find and that religion can help,” and the Bishop of Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Javier Gomez, wrote a letter on Sunday to the artist and said he would like to have coffee with her. He said in his writings: “When you talk about a thirst that the world cannot satisfy, and that only God can fill this void, the search for meaning that passes through the film comes to your mind. Andrey Rublevby Tarkovsky. Like him, you seem to experience art as a spiritual journey, where creativity is a form of pilgrimage toward the beyond.
Sundays Alauda Ruiz de Azúa has also been widely recognized, even winning the Golden Shell Award at the 73rd San Sebastian Festival. The film tells the story of a 17-year-old girl from an upper-middle-class family in Bilbao, who is educated in a religious school and announces to those close to her that she wants to become a nun and enter a secluded convent.
The special award given by the Spanish Bishops’ Conference went to journalist Fernando Onega, who was press director for former President Adolfo Suarez. Writer Javier Cercas is the author of the book Crazy God at the end of the world, About the late Pope Francis, highlighted in the Journalism category.
The awards ceremony will be held on May 17, within the framework of the 60th World Telecommunication Day in 2026.