In my experience you almost never see phrases like that being used, certainly not in news sections. In any case, this article is an opinion piece, on Comment Is Free, which is a free-for-all, and it's not written by a journalist, but by an aide to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

For those who don't know, the Archbishop of Canterbury is the leader of the Church of England, and the current incumbent, Justin Welby, used to a finance executive in the oil industry, and tends to be engaged with these sorts of issues.