On a recent sunny spring day, Father Eric Salobir led a delegation through St. Peter's Square, past the crowds and toward Pope Leo XIV . With him were representatives of Meta, Google, and Amazon, part of a small group gathered in Rome to discuss child protection in the age of artificial intelligence. The encounter with the pope was brief. The meeting that followed, in the French embassy to the Holy See in central Rome, lasted for hours. There, Paolo Ruffini, the Vatican's top communications