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This was the Social Communication's own logo. Ugly, huh?This was the image that the Pontifical Council on Social Communication used for their article. Kind of ugly, huh?The day after Pope John Paul II's beatification the Vatican is sponsoring a day conference on/for Catholic bloggers. On May 2 150 bloggers are invited to the Palazzo San Pio X for this all-day conference.
The Pontifical Council for Social Communications and the Pontifical Council for Culture are hosting the event.
In order to get invited all one has to do is email the event host - blogmeet@pccs.it - and pray you get picked. Oh, and you need to figure out a way to fly to Rome and be put up somewhere. All costs are covered by you.
So I just sent in my own request for the conference. Maybe I can fundraise for the flight out there- if they pick me, that is.