In his first media interview since assuming the papacy, published Sunday by Crux, a news site reporting on the Vatican and the Catholic Church, Pope Leo criticized the growing wealth inequality that he says is fueled in part by massive corporate compensation deals. "Add on top of that a couple of other factors, one which I think is very significant, is the continuously wider gap between the income levels of the working class and the money that the wealthiest receive," he said. "This would mean, for example, working to overcome the unacceptable disproportion between the immense wealth concentrated in the hands of a few and the world's poor," he said, according to Arlington Catholic Herald.
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Published at: 2025-09-14 22:10:30
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