This is my vocation: reparation and penance for the sins of priests; hence the constant urging of our Lord to generosity.

COMMENT: Reparation for the sins of priests was a constant theme of Fr Doyle’s private spiritual life and of his practice of mortification. This theme became ever more important as he neared the end of his life – even when in the midst of the war he sought to make reparation for the sins of priests.