Song: The Pope Hates Us Billionaires
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Artist: Ken Langone
Year: 2014Viewed: 59 - Published at: 7 years ago
Ken Langone: “I’ve told the cardinal, ‘Your Eminence, this one more hurdle I hope we don’t have to deal with. You want to be careful about generalities. Rich people in one country don’t act the same as rich people in another country.
There is no nation on earth that is so forthcoming, so giving.
Langone is trying to explain to the Pope "the vast difference between the pope's experience in Argentina and how we are in America."
Cardinal Dolan: Unlike other countries of the world, we don’t have these century-old wealthy people. We don’t have an aristocratic class. We have people, like Ken himself, who came up the hard way and worked very hard with immense industry and diligence and now is a man of wealth, and those people by their nature want to help those who are now coming up. So there seems to be, as part of the American chemistry, a desire to give back.
[Langone] did pass on to me, he said, "Dolan, one person said, ‘You come to us who have been blessed, who are wealthy, and yet we sense that perhaps the Pope is less than enthusiastic about us.’”
And he said that we need to correct that. And I said, “Well, Ken, that would be a misunderstanding of the Holy Father’s message. The Pope loves poor people, he also loves rich people; he loves people. He’s not into the condemning game for anybody--his famous, renowned statement now, ‘Who am I to judge?’”
I said, “Ken, thanks for bringing it to my attention. We’ve got to correct to make sure that this gentleman, who’s the only one I’ve heard, understands the Holy Father’s message properly, and then I think he’s gonna say, ‘If that’s the case, count me in for Saint Patrick’s Cathedral.’’
There is no nation on earth that is so forthcoming, so giving.
Langone is trying to explain to the Pope "the vast difference between the pope's experience in Argentina and how we are in America."
Cardinal Dolan: Unlike other countries of the world, we don’t have these century-old wealthy people. We don’t have an aristocratic class. We have people, like Ken himself, who came up the hard way and worked very hard with immense industry and diligence and now is a man of wealth, and those people by their nature want to help those who are now coming up. So there seems to be, as part of the American chemistry, a desire to give back.
[Langone] did pass on to me, he said, "Dolan, one person said, ‘You come to us who have been blessed, who are wealthy, and yet we sense that perhaps the Pope is less than enthusiastic about us.’”
And he said that we need to correct that. And I said, “Well, Ken, that would be a misunderstanding of the Holy Father’s message. The Pope loves poor people, he also loves rich people; he loves people. He’s not into the condemning game for anybody--his famous, renowned statement now, ‘Who am I to judge?’”
I said, “Ken, thanks for bringing it to my attention. We’ve got to correct to make sure that this gentleman, who’s the only one I’ve heard, understands the Holy Father’s message properly, and then I think he’s gonna say, ‘If that’s the case, count me in for Saint Patrick’s Cathedral.’’
( Ken Langone )
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