[Image: Wikimedia Commons]Pope Leo has lobbed a holy hand grenade straight at the gilded gates of Silicon Valley, singling out none other than Elon Musk as the poster child for capitalism’s excesses. The pontiff says the ballooning pay gap between CEOs and regular folk is unfair and practically tearing society apart at the seams. “Yesterday, the news [arrived] that Elon Musk is going to be the first trillionaire in the world,” Leo told Catholic news site Crux in late July. If that is the only thing that has any value any more, then we are in big trouble.”Trouble indeed. Chicago-born, he spent years working in Peru before being summoned to Rome in 2023 by the late Pope Francis.