THE INTERNATIONAL CATHOLIC WEEKLY

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Heavenly treasure Laura Gascoigne is mesmerised by Jan van Eyck’s masterpiece

Jonathan Tulloch denounces China’s repression of the Uyghurs • Joanna Moorhead interviews Ruth Valerio Melanie McDonagh salutes Zara and George Steiner • Gillian Crow stays faithful to Metropolitan Anthony

Christopher Howse on sex and secularisation • Mark Lawson on Chekhov • Brian Morton on Gene Clark

EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT SARA MAITLAND • CATHERINE PEPINSTER • LIBBY PURVES • SEAN WHITTLE