(Monday Vatican. Andrea Glagiarducci).
The big news at the end of last week was that Pope Francis will be participating in the G7 meeting scheduled for mid-June of this year, in the Italian region of Puglia, specifically to speak on Artificial Intelligence. The Pope will join a session for invited countries, not being the Vatican a part of the G7.
In general, the Holy See always looked at the G-sessions (G7, G8, G20) with some suspicion, since these are “club of friends”, and not multilateral arenas where every country, even the smallest ones, have a voice and some weight.