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No. 1953. PERTH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1975
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FATHER HEALY NEW AUXILIARY It was announced in Rome at noon last Monday (7 p.m. Perth time) that Father Robert Healy, parish priest of Cottesloe, had been appointed by Pope Paul VI to be an Auxiliary Bishop to Archbishop Goody of Perth. The ordination ceremony With six other priests of the new bishop will take from Ireland, Fr Healy arrived at Fremantle on Febplace on December 9. By a long-standing prac- ruary 26, 1950. Father Healy spent short tice in the Church, bishops who serve in capacities oth- intervals as assistant priest er than having personal at South Perth and Mayjurisdiction over , a diocese lands. After five years in Clareare given titles from territories that were former dio- mont he moved to the goldfields for the next ten years, ceses. Bishop-elect Healy is tit- being in Boulder for one ular bishop of Mayo, Ire- year and administrator of Kalgoorlie for the next land. Mayo was originally the nine years. name of a now extinct mon- THE FIRST AT astery that had a bishop at its head. (The last resident W ILLAGEE He came to the metrobishop of Mayo was probably James O'Healy who politan area to become first lost his life for the Faith parish priest of Willagee in 1965 and the new church in 1578.) of Our Lady Queen of Peace was built during his CREATION time there. OF MAYO He became parish priest Today the name is at- of Cottesloe in 1971. tached to one of the counHe was appointed a Dioties created by Sir Henry cesan Consultor in 1969 Sidney in 1566 in the time early in the pontificate Bishop-elect Robert Healy pictured this week with of Bisho of Elizabeth I. Archbishop Goody. left, and Archbishop Goody on the occasion of his being p Quinn, The former nominated episcopal In the first Senate of Auxiliary Bishop. territory of Mayo is today Priests, he took over the • distributed among four sur- task of chairman relinquish• .rounding dioceses. ed by the archbishop and The new Perth auxiliary he continued in that posibishop was born in Cruttin- tion for a further thrce clough, Castlecomer, County years. Kilkenny. His mother, Mrs. M. ROLE IN CLERGY Healy, is still living in Ire- A FFAI RS land, as are his three sisters His most significant work and three brothers. in recent years has been in Catholic history over While studying in St. the area of clergy affairs Kieran's College. Kilken years ny, following his appointmeat two thousand he turned his sights to Aus- in 1973 for a three-year had contained some tralia following a call to term as Episco pal Vicar for pretty shameful epi• the college from the late Clergy, after the clergy sodes but there was Archbishop Prendiville. were asked for their nomi- no need for o royal cestors and taught them the the blame should not be nations for that office. commission to con- gospel for the very first laid on the missionary who . TO W.A. FROM Arriving at the 25th anni- firm the Church's time, and I am glad they was trN ing to bring a way IRELAND did so. versary of his priesthood in error, Father Nicho of life and not a new cullas Class contemporarie June last year, he was feted "Who were the first ture to those shores. s who McSw • eeney said in I ollowed the same in his parish before returnMissionaries of the past Christian missionaries to W.A. are Fathers call to ing to Ireland for a re- Perth this week. Italy, to Yugoslavia, France, were products of their times 'Mullins and James James union of the 13-member "The Church has the hu- Germany, Ireland, England and had to do the best they orDow!. dination class that in the mility and strength of Spirit or Scotland?" he asked. could inside the colonial atA mong other meantime had dispersed to to admit its mistakes, conColleg ians They were men and wo- titudes that existed at the - who preceded them to Penh America. England and Scot- fess its sins and take steps men with time. • tver the late zeal and there Bishop Rafferty land as well as Australia. to try and do better in the was no "Today's missionary calls evidence that they and Monsignor future" the Perth Missions disturbed Wallace. (• See also P. 2) the local culture these peoples 'sister' churDirector said. to its detriment, he noted. ches - and is aware that Speaking on the signifiThe missionaries of this Christ is already at work cance of World Mission century had done the whole in their midst even if it is Day that is observed in all Church a great service, he kind. of Hidden Life of churches throughout the said, because they had been Christ",. he said. world this Sunday, October "When the gospel is di honest enough to ask wheth19, Father McSweeney said reedy preached to them this er the faith had been transthat some people thoughtplanted or implanted in Hidden Life of Christ will lessly condemned missionemerge into a positive faith these new areas. aries outright for going inin the Risen Christ." to non-Christian countries It was often Western culFr. McSweeney said that and allegedly disturbing the ture itself that was disturb- the 1974 Synod of Bishops ing the local culture and local culture. on Evangelisation set four targets for the immediate CORRECTING Mission of the Church: MISTAKES ON INSIDE PAGES 1. THE WEST: The Church must face "Some mistakes have been Calendar . 4 modern day secular made — though not as ism and Classified examine its credibility in many as some people make Advertisements 10 eyes of the 'sister' churches. out --- b:n in the past 30 11 years the Church has had Education File . 11 INJUSTICE • -• a big enough heart to ad- Letters mit these -mistakes and re- News In Pars . . 4 2. LATIN AMERICA: new its missionary work in- Sister Phi !omen() The Church must identiEarle to an up to date effort," he fy with, the poor and the 8 de wee euated wise( io cald added. Sport .10, 12 v ictims of injustice. 1308 ALBANY HIGHW "Somewhere, sometime, a Theatre AY CANNI NGTON 7 3. IN. 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