Luis Argüello, head of the bishops gathered from Tuesday to Friday in the Plenary Assembly of the EEC (Spanish Episcopal Conference), referred to them without citing them in his inaugural speech to two Spanish artists: the singer Rosalía and the director Alauda Ruiz de Azúa. The reason is to show that his latest work is the album Lux and the movie Sundaysabout a young woman who announces to her family that she wants to become a cloistered nun – to talk about the “Catholic turning point” that according to her society is experiencing.
“Some events that have occurred in recent weeks have led to a debate on God and Catholicism, to a media debate,” Argüeso said. “There is a current, which is well discovered by marketing or that it is a real current, that in some way also in the contact that we usually have with our fellow citizens and with the members of the people of God”, he underlined before the plenary of the bishops. “An expression that has also had artistic expressions, an album by an extraordinary Spanish singer”, he underlined about Rosalía, and then he spoke of “a work of cinema, also an expression, in one way or another, of beauty”.
