A priest in Tasmania says the cross should be taken off hot cross buns, which have gone on sale in supermarkets months before Good Friday.
Burnie Catholic priest Father Tony Kennedy says the buns have lost their religious significance and the cross should stay off them until Good Friday, which falls on April 6 in 2012.
“Woolworths should remove the cross and sell them as buns and put it back on Good Friday,” Father Kennedy told Hobart newspaper The Mercury.
Father Kennedy says hot cross buns were originally eaten on Good Friday, which is still 13 weeks away, to remind people of the death of Jesus Christ.
Woolworths and Coles say the buns go on sale in January every year because of customer demand.
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