Instead of a thought for today, I thought it might be worthwhile to share some recent links to other websites that have recently featured Fr Doyle, especially last week around the time of his anniversary. Readers of this site might like to visit these sites and see what others have to say about Fr Doyle. Fr Mark Daniel Kirby OSB – Vultus Christi blog http://vultus.stblogs.org/2011/08/father-willie-doyle-sj-a-pries.html Anita Moore OPL – V …
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August 22, 2011
I have posted about this before, but now that Lent is upon us I am posting it again, simply because the book is so good. I can think of no better book to read during the holy season of Lent than Professor Alfred O’Rahilly’s biography of Fr Doyle. It is a masterpiece on many levels – a psychologically astute review of Fr Doyle’s character, a wonderful history of World War …
March 8, 2011
Last week I gratefully received an old Belgian prayer card of Fr Doyle with an imprimator from 1939. I have scanned the card and the file can be found below. How far and wide did devotion to Fr Doyle spread? We know that O’Rahilly’s biography was translated into more than half a dozen European languages. One person from the Netherlands has commented on the site about how his Dutch …
March 6, 2011
The Remembering Fr Doyle blog is now available on Twitter! The daily quote will be linked on Twitter much like it currently is on Facebook. Please follow the blog on Twitter, and even more importantly, please re-tweet the message so that even more people can come to know and love Fr Doyle! Just click on the image below or in the right hand column.
March 5, 2011
Following my post a few days ago about the relative lack of canonised Irish saints from the past 500 years, Fr Gabriel Burke has started a series with short biographies of some Irish causes for canonisation. It is worth a look: http://frgabrielburke.blogspot.com/
January 13, 2011
I just stumbled across the following reference to Fr Doyle in World War 1 discussion forum. It comes from a book entitled The Cross on the Sword: Catholic Chaplains in the Armed Forces by Johnstone, Hagerty and Walmsley: Fr Fitzmaurice had received the MC for service at Messines Ridge in 1917, and was mentioned in despatches; he was also recommended for the French Legion d’Honneur for ‘constant bravery and endurance’, …
December 14, 2010
Fr Frank Browne SJ Fr Frank Browne SJ was a friend and colleague of Fr Doyle’s during the war, serving alongside him in the trenches. He is mentioned several times throughout O’Rahilly’s biography. We have already mentioned Fr Browne in other posts, for instance here http://fatherdoyle.com/2010/08/02/thoughts-about-fr-willie-doyle-for-august-2/ Fr Browne survied the war, and took thousands of photographs of Irish life over the next 40 years. Here is a link to a …
November 25, 2010
I came across the following review of a book about the Irish in the Great War which mentions Fr Doyle: http://www.irishpost.co.uk/tabId/68/itemId/6605/A-vivid-picture-off-our-forgotten-war-heroes.aspx Details of the book can be found here: http://www.obrien.ie/book889.cfm
November 18, 2010
Fr Bernard McGuckian SJ, writing in this month’s edition of the Sacred Heart Messenger, refers to Fr Doyle in some advice he gives a reader. The article can be accessed here: http://www.messenger.ie/November_2010/Your_Questions_Answered-58-_Carrying_the_Cross_ia.aspx
November 12, 2010
The blog Idle Speculations has some details about military chaplains in World War 1, including some details about Fr Doyle, as well as some interesting photographs of other chaplains during this period. It is well worth checking out. http://idlespeculations-terryprest.blogspot.com/2010/08/todays-memorials.html
August 5, 2010