Remember how the answer to any obviously yes question used to be, “Is the Pope Catholic?”  Use that at your own peril now.

It appears that the Pope may be just incidentally Catholic.

He’s rankled the REAL Pope.  Who has taken it to the Cardinal.  The Pope’s latest comments about Christianity vs. Capitalism have upset some folks.

Ken Langone, the Pope of Hammers

At issue is an effort to raise $180 million for the restoration of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York being spearheaded by billionaire Ken Langone, the investor known for founding Home Depot, among other things.

Langone told CNBC that one potential seven-figure donor is concerned about statements from the pope criticizing market economies as “exclusionary,” urging the rich to give more to the poor and criticizing a “culture of prosperity” that leads some to become “incapable of feeling compassion for the poor.”

Langone said he’s raised the issue more than once with Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, most recently at a breakfast in early December at which he updated him on fundraising progress.

And what did Langone whine to the Cardinal about?

“I’ve told the cardinal, ‘Your Eminence, this is 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,’ ” he said.

Oh yeah, rich people in America are way different than foreign rich people at getting camels through the eye of a needle.  To begin with, very few rich people in America have camels.

Cardinal Dolan

Langone rips off his workers for billions of dollars and then tosses a million to a restoration project to get his name on a church, just like Jesus said to do.

I cannot wait for Langone to make his plea of calling sacrificing the poor just “one more hurdle” to Jesus.  I’ve heard from moneychangers in the temple that Jesus has a bit of a temper.

And shame on Cardinal Dolan if he didn’t say, “Hey, Langone, kiss my funny red hat.”

I would have said that and I don’t even have a funny red hat.