Where Your Treasure Is, There Will Your Heart Be Also

A mere year after it became apparent that News Corporation's ethics were not altogether of the cleanest, the religious wing of the Corporation of London has decided to sell its shares. The Church of England, which had almost two million pounds invested in the holy empire of Fox News and Page 3, did some huffing and puffing when the phone-hacking scandal broke; however, no notice appears to have been taken, doubtless to the vast surprise and disappointment of the entire Anglican civil war. Still, it is fortunate that a genuine moral question was involved, viz. something to do with money. Had it been merely a question of who gets to be a second-order human being, the haggling over whether to disinvest partly or entirely, or whether to create a special quasi-separate sub-church which could invest or disinvest according to the vagaries of its fiscal conscience, might have gone on into the middle of the century.