Pope Leo criticises high, Musk-style corporate pay packages


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  • Sunday, 14 Sep 2025

Pope Leo XIV leads the Angelus prayer on his 70th birthday, from the window of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican, September 14, 2025. REUTERS/Vincenzo Livieri

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Leo criticised corporate pay packages that offer executives much higher salaries than their employees in excerpts from his first media interview released on Sunday, citing Tesla's recent $1 trillion compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk.

Leo, originally from Chicago, also spoke about the United Nations, his decades working as a missionary in Peru, how he has been adapting to the role of pope, and his hopes for peace in the bloody, three-year conflict between Ukraine and Russia.

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