Pope Leo has criticized the widening corporate pay gap between executives and their workers in his first interview since ascending to the papacy.

The interview was released Sunday on the Catholic news site Crux , and is part of a new biography of the pope titled Leo XIV: Citizen of the World, Missionary of the XXI Century.

“CEOs that 60 years ago might have been making four to six times more than what the workers are receiving … 600 times more (now),” Leo said in the interview.

“Yesterday (there was) the news that Elon Musk is going to be the first trillionaire in the world,” he said, adding: “What does that mean, and what’s that about? If that is the only thing that has value anymore, then we’re in big trouble.”

Later during the interview, Pope Leo expressed his displeasure abou

See Full Page