Richard Rouse is emphatic that this is not a meeting just for Catholic bloggers

Live blog courtesy of yours truly... To open the meeting, Richard Rouse is emphatic that this is not a meeting just for Catholic bloggers. ‘Not a theoretical meeting…This is not a publicity stunt to say that blogs are good and that the internet is about more than pornography…. This is not a stage to set up a moral code for bloggers…but we may learn how to disagree without being disagreeable…. This is a simple meeting, not trying to replace journalism. Here today we are having a meeting that is for bloggers who are also persons…’