THE INTERNATIONAL CATHOLIC WEEKLY

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The forgotten famine

Alex de Waal on a war of starvation in Tigray

Liz Murphy Religious sisters face

the final curtain

John Burnside In search of the soul in an upland summer

Joanna Moorhead James MacMillan marks

our sense of loss

David Goodall Margaret Thatcher’s mistrust of the Irish