In the days immediately after the Blogmeet there were 17 million pages devoted to it on the internet. According to Rouse, one of the best fr...
The biggest challenge in organising the Blogmeet was that “it was hard to keep it focused. It was a meeting between the Vatican, between t...
The three key Blogmeet organisers were Rouse, Mgr Paul Tighe, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communication, and Fr Ariel Ber...
Richard Rouse is a dynamic English official at the Vatican Pontifical Council for Culture. He many accomplishments to his name but has manag...
This just came into my in-box... Dear Bloggers, As the buzz and excitement of the Vatican Blogger Meeting settles and your feedback and disc...
Cyberteologica reports that (So Far) reactions to the Vatican for Bloggers Meeting are contained in more than 17 million Web pages. With th...
Preferring to be energised and caffeinated – I’d stuck with the coffee and avoided the prosecco. We took our seats for the second panel....
The speakers ascend the stage and take their places at the panel… Every blogger in the room has their fingers poised over their keyboard as ...
It’s a sunlit, sizzling hot day in Rome, and the streets around the Vatican throng with John Paul II disciples; their faces are bathed in ...
I will follow with some reflections and an account of my time there - when time allows...
Marco Sanavio showed us a cartoon to show that ‘who you are comes across when you use the net.’
Thaddeus Jones has just been giving us a preview of ‘news.va’ – an exciting web venture that has the aims of gathering info automatically,...
Fr Lombardi said that he is ‘very grateful’ to blogs for their role in representing the Pope’s position on condoms clearly. This is one cent...
Fr Roderick Vonhogen: ‘I was driven as a teenager to share my faith’, but he explains that he was ‘surrounded’ by other young people who wou...
‘We start blogs because we believe. We are a community, we walk through life together. There are two among us that we can pray for and celeb...
Live blog courtesy of yours truly... To open the meeting, Richard Rouse is emphatic that this is not a meeting just for Catholic bloggers. ...
This book looks fascinating! The book's author Taylor Marshall is ecstatic that he is invited to the Vatican blogfest. I just added hi...
