The British province of the Jesuits published an interesting article about Fr Doyle today. The second paragraph about the new path to canonisation in the motu proprio Maiorem Hac Dilectionem is especially important… http://www.jesuit.org.uk/fr-doyle-sj-truly-european-hero
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August 22, 2017
The following was written about Fr Doyle by Sir Percival Phillips, the famous war correspondent, and appeared in the Daily Express on this day in 1917. The Orangemen will not forget a certain Roman Catholic chaplain who lies in a soldier’s grave in that sinister plain beyond Ypres. He went forward and back over the battle field with bullets whining about him, seeking out the dying and kneeling in the …
August 22, 2017
The sales figures for To Raise the Fallen place it as the Number 3* hardback non-fiction book in Ireland last week. That is a phenomenal achievement given the vast competition and the fact that this is Ireland in 2017. This is not about boasting or anything like that. I share this information because it shows that Fr Doyle is still relevant for people today. His writings have been met with a …
August 21, 2017
I shall give a talk about Fr Doyle this Wednesday, August 23, at 1pm in the Central Catholic Library, Merrion Square, Dublin. Copies of To Raise the Fallen will be available at the talk. I am also available to give talks about Fr Doyle around Ireland (or elsewhere!). I already have some other dates for other events in my diary and will publicise them in due course. Fr Doyle’s heroism …
August 21, 2017
Dom Mark Daniel Kirby, the founder and prior of Silverstream Priory in County Meath, has kindly written a nice note about To Raise the Fallen. He describes Fr Doyle very poetically as an incandescent figure of holiness – high praise from one who has an intimate knowledge of many of the canonised saints. Silverstream Priory is one of the hidden good news stories of the church in Ireland. There is …
August 19, 2017
Ronan McGreevy of the Irish Times has produced a fascinating documentary about the Irish involvement in World War 1. Today the Irish Times published the segment featuring the Battle of Passchendaele and the Irish involvement therein. Fr Doyle features extensively, and we get a glimpse of the terrain where he worked and was killed. Thanks to Ronan for his hard work in keeping the memory of these Irish soldiers alive …
August 18, 2017
Robert Fisk published an article about Fr Doyle in the Independent (UK) yesterday. It is an interesting, but somewhat unusual, take on Fr Doyle. There are some factual and theological difficulties with it, and it is rather polemical. I link to it here only for the historical record and without comment one way or the other. http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-what-one-mans-life-can-tell-us-a7897951.html
August 18, 2017
Other books have changed position in the rankings, but Fr Doyle remains number 1. A great achievement in Ireland 2017.
August 18, 2017
Below are some photographs of last week’s very successful book launch of To Raise the Fallen. I am a bit late putting them up, but it has been busy!! I hope these give a sense of the launch, and the interest in Fr Doyle, for all of those who live in other parts of the world. Thanks to my friend Sam who took the photographs. Pamela McLoughlin, Marketing Manager of …
August 17, 2017
August 16, 2017