Vatican City, May 2, 2011 / 20:46 pm
The first ever Vatican sponsored gathering of Catholic bloggers is being hailed as a success by participants.
The conference was hosted by the Pontifical Council for Culture. It drew a large amount of interest with over 750 bloggers applying to attend and over 9 million Google hits on the subject over the past five weeks alone. Logistics determined that only 150 could take part, so organizers held a drawing, deciding who could attend.
At the end of the event, organizer Richard Rouse seemed delighted.
“It went really well. I’m really glad we had this meeting. It was completely uncontrolled and uncontrollable so I’m glad that it’s taken place. I thought the best thing was the meeting face to face of different bloggers. That was great.”