Cause for Canonization of World War I Chaplain Father Willie Doyle Advances to Rome

Cause for Canonization of World War I Chaplain Father Willie Doyle Advances to Rome

This is the first time in more than 40 years that a canonization cause has completed its diocesan phase in Ireland and moved on to the Vatican.

Cause for canonization of WWI chaplain Father Willie Doyle advances to Rome

The cause for canonization of Servant of God Father Willie Doyle, SJ, officially entered the Roman phase of the cause on Nov. 10 after the documentation gathered during the diocesan phase was formally submitted to the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints.