Billionaire Home Depot Founder Says Pope Francis Is Alienating the Rich
You can’t become “incapable” of feeling compassion - you either have it or you don’t - sociopaths like Lagone just don’t understand that caring about others isn’t something you can turn on or off like a faucet. The gaffe itself is ample demonstration that he has none, and that all his charity is for appearances or tax breaks, and that it does not originate from real concern or care.
Billionaire Home Depot founder Ken Langone has a warning for Pope Francis.
A major Republican donor, Langone told CNBC in a story published online Monday that wealthy people such as himself might stop giving to charity if the Pope continues to make statements criticizing capitalism and income inequality.
Langone described the Pope’s comments about a “culture of prosperity” as “exclusionary” statements that may make some of the rich “incapable of feeling compassion for the poor.”
Langone, who is leading an effort to raise money for the restoration of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan said he relayed these concerns to Cardinal Timothy Dolan in New York. Specifically, Langone said he told the church leader he spoke to a donor who could give millions of dollars to the cathedral project but was worried about the Pope’s “exclusionary” remarks.
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