Overview

• Leo XIV decried a widening pay gap, saying some CEOs now earn about 600 times the average worker and pointing to Tesla’s roughly $1 trillion compensation plan for Elon Musk as emblematic.
• He said the United Nations has, for now, lost its capacity to foster effective multilateral cooperation.
• The Holy See has maintained strict neutrality in the Russia‑Ukraine war, and the Vatican remains willing to host a meeting between the parties.
• On internal reform, he backed synodality to amplify voices in the Church while cautioning against treating the institution as a democratic government.
• The remarks come from an interview by Crux correspondent Elise Ann Allen for a biography due out in Spanish in Peru on Sept. 18, with excerpts published by Crux as the pope described a steep learning curve in his new role.