Jesus Hostage on E-Bay

Well, as several Catholic blogs have by now noted, the Eucharistic Jesus is once again being held for ransom, I mean bidding, on E-Bay. This time the "seller" is in Great Britain; the top bid is by now a hefty 10K in U.S. funds. And we think E-Bay would even contemplate putting the Eucharist on its verboten list? Nein, I tell you: it is obviously a very lucrative market: crazy Catholics are willing to pay such sums to keep the Eucharist out of the wrong hands... Or maybe its the wrong hands who are willing to pay the sums, I don't know. But it's clear that E-Bay is not going to want to exclude an item with such a potentially high profit margin.

Of course, the Lord set himself up for this by making himself so available. It's that darn Incarnation thing. Once again and for all time, Jesus associates himself with those whose bodies are exploited for others' profit.

And we don't even have any way of verifying that it even is a consecrated host and not just any old communion type wafer that is being offered.

Are there no Catholic hackers out there who could track the seller down so he/she might be ... persuaded to release the hostage?