Pope Leo has criticised corporate pay packages that offer executives much higher salaries than their employees in excerpts from his first media interview, citing Tesla's recent record-breaking 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.

He has shown a more reserved style than his predecessor Pope Francis, who often gave interviews, and prefers to speak from prepared texts. Sunday's excerpts were released on the Catholic news site Crux.

"CEOs that 60 years ago might have been making four to six times more than what the workers are receiving … 600 times m

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