John Fahey was born on 3 October, 1883 at Rossmore, Co. Tipperary. He was educated at Mt Melleray and at Genoa. He was ordained on 25 May 1907 and arrived in Perth on 7 December of that year. He joined up on 8 September 1914 as a Chaplain and was assigned to the 11th Battalion. He reached Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. He was mentioned in dispatches and was awarded the DSO for “gallantry...

Vatican norms insist on ‘generous’ approval for use of Tridentine rite By John Thavis Archbishop Barry Hickey gives first Holy Communion on the tongue to a young boy kneeling at the ‘second re-opening’ of St Anne’s Church in Belmont on 25 July 2010. Fr Michael Rowe (at left), chaplain of Perth’s traditional Latin Rite Catholics, and his community spent much time renovating the church aft...

By Anthony Barich Photo: Melville Perera Archbishop Barry Hickey ordained Christian Webb to the Diaconate on 20 December at Ballajura Parish Church. Webb, born in 1969, started his studies at St Charles Seminary in Guildford before attending the Pontifical Beda College in Rome, which was established in 1852 to form older men, often convert clergymen, for Catholic priesthood. He t...

By Anthony Barich ARCHBISHOP Barry Hickey has described East Victoria Park Parish as a “beacon of hope” for the Church, as a Bishop, two priests, one Religious Brother and 10 Religious Sisters have emerged from it. The parish celebrated its 75th anniversary and the 50th anniversary of the current Our Lady Help of Christians Church with a Mass and lunch on 12 December. Bunbury Bishop Gerard H...

Pontifical North American College seminarians Keith D. Romke of the Diocese of Rockford, Ill., Mark R. Payton of the Archdiocese of Perth, Australia, and George K. Nixon of the Diocese of Providence, R.I., are seen after being ordained deacons in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 7. Thirty seminarians from the U.S. national seminary were ordained deacons. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) (Oct. 7...

The first missionaries to Daly River were a group of 17 Jesuits, one of them the brother of Blessed Mary MacKillop (pictured above with students from Daly River). For 17 years they worked to evangelise and improve the lives of Aborigines. Forced to leave in 1899, their legacy was picked up and continued by Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in 1906. Parish priest Fr Tom English’s work in t...

Outgoing Press Secretary for Archbishop Hickey Hugh Ryan said that working for Archbishop Hickey has been the highlight of his career.

EDITOR’S NOTE: An article by well-known Australian journalist Geraldine Willesee appeared in several Australian newspapers over the weekend of 23-24 February 2013 reporting her experience of sexual abuse by the late Fr Brian Harris when she was a 14-year-old student in Perth in the early 1960s. At the time the below article on Fr Harris was published, The Record was unaware of any allegation...

EDITOR’S NOTE: An article by well-known Australian journalist Geraldine Willesee appeared in several Australian newspapers over the weekend of 23-24 February 2013 reporting her experience of sexual abuse by the late Fr Brian Harris when she was a 14-year-old student in Perth in the early 1960s. At the time the below article on Fr Harris was published, The Record was unaware of any allegation...

Home Masses were features of the early development of the Doubleview-Woodlands Parish and the Holy Rosary School, well before the school’s blessing and official opening in 1959.