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Father Willie Doyle, S.J.

Father Willie Doyle’s cause: fearless in his faith on Flanders Fields

Nov 22, 2022

By Patrick J. Passmore

Father Willie Doyle was an inspiring yet unassuming Irish World War I chaplain. Now his cause for canonization has been... Read more

Father Willie Doyle, S.J.

Will war chaplain Willie Doyle be Ireland’s next saint?

Oct 31, 2022

By Kevin J. Jones

Doyle was an Irish military chaplain for the British Army who served heroically on the battlefields of World War I... Read more

Campbell Miller presents a copy of "Bravery Under Fire" to Pope Francis Oct. 10, 2018.

Film tells story of Irish chaplain on frontlines of World War I

Oct 12, 2018

By Hannah Brockhaus

A new film tells the story of Irish Jesuit Fr. William “Willie” Doyle, who during World War I brought the... Read more

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