Voices
The Most Rev. Vincent G. Nichols is the Archbishop of Westminster, London. This article is adapted from a talk he delivered in April 2013 to The Saint Paul’s Institute, a London-based, non-profit organization that seeks to engage the financial world with questions of morality and ethics.
The English author and journalist Will Self provides a dramatic image of the City of London's changing skyline. He likens it to a slow-motion firework display as new glass and steel skyscrapers rise and fall, sparkling for a few decades but—by implication at least—destined for ashes.