Pope Leo has criticised the widening pay gap between corporate bosses such as Elon Musk and ordinary working people, as he blamed rising economic inequality for the polarisation roiling the globe.
In his first interview since becoming pope in May, Leo, the first US-born spiritual leader of the Catholic church, singled out Musk as an example of the kind of wealth he said was undermining “the value of human life, of the family, of the value of society”.
“Yesterday, the news [arrived] that Elon Musk is going to be the first trillionaire in the world,” Leo said in an interview given in late July and published on Sunday on Crux, a Catholic news website.