Read, watch, listen: TGO’s top picks to bring in the New Year
In the December edition, The Good Oil has gathered recommendations from some of our readers...
So this is Easter… a moment in history, a moment like none other
Like the women at the empty tomb we, too, go in faith. We wait to...
Viewing the coronavirus crisis through a Benedictine lens
The building of community is one of our major callings as Benedictine Oblates. During this...
In ‘Querida Amazonia’ we are called to listen and to hear
In his apostolic exhortation Querida Amazonia Pope Francis sees the theological Amazon as the greatest...
Cures for the deep eco-blues as we grieve for our Earth
This year, my annual break turned from azure sky and aquamarine sea to a much...
It’s beginning to look a lot unlike Christmas
How far can the sacred, intangible architecture stretch, be refashioned or reframed, before it no...
Justice: the oil greasing the Evangelisation of our youth
“Where are our youth… if not in church, then where?” Clare Vernon reflects on the...
We need to weep
By weeping and naming their grief, women in the Archdiocese of Canberra Goulburn have begun...
Mirrors and flags
A great deal is being written about the violence and deaths in Papua and West...
Disappearing lands and displacement: where do these people ‘fit’?
At the heart of these global crises is the fate of the whole of God’s...
A ritual of lament
“When we hurt physically, we cry out in pain; when we hurt religiously, we cry...
Lay church leadership is realised one slippery rock at a time
Pauline Connelly reflects on the challenges of lay leadership at a time when the church’s...