'Outrageous' salary gap between managers, staff, says priest

(See related) (ANSA) - Vatican City, April 18 - It is "outrageous" that managers who earn salaries and benefits worth many times more than their employees do not offer to return some of the stipends, Father Raniero Cantalamessa said Friday.
    During Holy Friday Mass in the Vatican, Cantalamessa picked up on a theme of social justice often favoured by Pope Francis, and called for a narrower salary gap between high-income earners and average workers.
    "It is outrageous that some receive salaries and pensions a hundred times higher than those who work" in the same firm, he said.
    Cantalamessa also denounced managers who steal from their own organizations and compared them to Judas, the apostle who betrayed Christ.
    "Judas began by stealing some money from the common fund...does this say something about certain directors," said Cantalamessa.