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Number 2384
PERTH, WA: APRIL 5 — 11, 1984
tril3ACK MY SPIRIT LAND SAYS NEW SHOP
Monsignor Barry Hickey of Highgate will be going back to the Church of his youth when he takes up office as the seventh bishop of Geraldton. The appointment by Pope John Paul II announced at the Vatican on Wednesday night will become a reality when Archbishop Foley consecrates him as bishop and installs him as his successor, in St Francis Xavier Cathedral on Tuesday, May 1.
Mons Hickey's links with Geraldton diocese go back to his birth in Leonora and later periods in VViluna and Cue where his father, the late Greg Hickey, a renowned football and cricket player, was the mining registrar.
than 500 More runners took part in La Salle marathon. See page 16.
Two other Hickey children boarded bt Geraldton Catholic schools.
The new Bishop of Geraldton appreciates the fact he will be back in familiar surroundings of his youth. "I have great affection for the outback. It is my 'spirit -land', if you like to put it that way."
He is impressed by the memories of the families who stayed in the mining towns a few years and then moved on, generally meeting the same families at the next stop. "They carried the faith with them. "I recall the bond of f aith, and the way Catholics would meet each other in place after place, because they felt the unity of being together in the one Church." he said.
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As director of Centrecare for 10 years, family life has been one of Mons Hickey's concerns. He hopes to continue that concern in his mission to the new mining centres of the north in Geraldton diocese. "What concerns me is these towns have gained a reputation for being harsh on family life as a place where they have no relatives, no family baby-sitters, no grandparents and no family network.
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Interview by Father PAT CUNNINGHAM
"They are good people with extra pressures on their married life and this will be one of my concerns. "Family life is the best way for two people to cope and the best place for children to grow up," he says. "It is a place where faith values are transmitted. "It is a sacred institution that needs all the support we can give." Mons Hickey believes his concern for social issues stirred in the days when he attended CBC Kalgoorlie when a brother praised the virtues of the great saints who had been poor.
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He recalls asking his father if their family was poor and was somewhat disappointed to be told they were not really poor. "In Kalgoorlie at the time, there were drunks on the street, men and women for whom I felt compassion. Aborigines drifted in and out of the towns without much of a future. Even though I understood little of their culture, I felt for them. "When I was first appointed to St Brigid's parish of West Perth, all the inner city problems were there and I felt very much at home in the houses of the poor." Today's poverty, Mons Hickey believes is often the
cause of the credit society where people who earn wages are often spending more than they receive. "But the real poverty is spiritual." he says.
"There is a terrible poverty in values when we pursue luxury and comfort to such an extent people are choosing an individual path rather than.being seen as belonging to other people." His interest in family issues took shape when Father Joe Russell asked him to take an interest in the Catholic Marriage Guid..nce Council and Archbishop Prendiville urged him to take a further step, and study for a degree in social work. Monsignor Hickey
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Born in the diocese Monsignor Hickey was born in Leonora in April 1936. His father was descended from a Victorian Catholic family which moved to the Eastern Goldfields where he met his bride Freda Kruse now of Claremont who was received into the Catholic Church after instruction by the Sisters of St Joseph at Boulder. Barry Hickey's early education was by the Presentation Sisters at Wiluna in a school
that has long since disappeared and later at Cue before the family moved to Kalgoorlie where he spent four years under the Christian Brothers. His seven years at St Charles Seminary were followed by four years at Propaganda College, Rome where he was ordained priest on December 20, 1958. • Cont. page 12