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The Father Willie Doyle Association

Father Willie Doyle Association

Official site for the canonisation cause of the Servant of God Fr Willie Doyle SJ

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To be indifferent does not mean to desire things which are hard to nature, but a readiness and determination to embrace them …

September 7, 2023

How little I think of committing venial sin, and how soon I forget I have done so! Yet God hates nothing more …

September 6, 2023

Today is the feast of Saint Teresa of Calcutta, one of the most famous and popular Catholics of recent times. Saint Teresa …

September 5, 2023

We continue the narrative from O’Rahilly’s biography which recounts the events of September 5, 1916. Please note: this excerpt reveals the true …

September 5, 2023

Today we continue the narrative and consider the events of September 4, 1916. Next morning there was a short march over the …

September 4, 2023

The above image was published in an Irish newspaper at the end of 1916. The priest is unidentified, but we can well …

September 3, 2023
Ask for prayers - Fr Willie Doyle

The following praise for Fr Willie appeared in the Glasgow Weekly News on 1 September 1917. It was written by a Belfast …

September 2, 2023

Reasons why our Communions and Masses do not make us Saints. 1. Want of preparation, through sloth, carelessness, or absorption in other …

September 1, 2023

Why are we not saints? Want of courage and want of patience. We give up, we have not the strength of will …

August 30, 2023

Don’t be stingy in giving praise, particularly with the young. If in a community there is some sister not as edifying as …

August 27, 2023