(April 09 2011) The Vatican Pontifical Councils for Culture and for Social Communications
are organizing a May 2 conference for Catholic bloggers, The conference, to be held
in Rome on the day after the beatification of Pope John Paul II, will include morning
and afternoon sessions. In the morning the speakers will be 5 active bloggers, chosen
to represent 5 language groups: Italian, English, Spanish, French, and Polish. (Simultaneous
translations will be provided.) In the afternoon, Vatican officials will offer their
reflections on blogging. The Vatican officials participating in the day’s activities
will include Cardinals Gianfranco Ravasi and Claudio Celli—the presidents, respectively,
of the Pontifical Councils for Culture and for Social Communications—and Father Federico
Lombardi, , the director of the Vatican press office.