Thomas P. Doyle Case
Thomas P. Doyle is a Dominican priest. He was born in Wisconsin 1944 and grew up in upstate New York and Canada. By 1971 he worked as an assistant pastor at St. Vincent Ferrer parish in Chicago. He helped parishioners go through annulments by the Codes of Canon Law. He didn’t receive formal education in canonical law so he took a course in church jurisprudence in Rome 1973. In 1978, Doyle finished his courses in canon law and in 1981 he was given an invitation for an interview to be a canon lawyer in Washington D.C. In 1984, a Louisiana priest was charged for pedophilia who admitted to having sex with thirty-seven boys. Doyle learned of this case and many more from a psychiatrist priest who worked with troubled priests. He started to research
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Doyle lives out his faith as an activist to help victims of abuse from the church and spreading the word of that abuse. He takes part in CatholicWhistleBlowers.org who talk about the churches mishandlings at great cost to their own careers in the clergy. Besides that, he has taken part in the report given to bishops about the issue of sexual abuse in the church and was punished for it, yet continues to voice the problem. He informed the layman of the church about the huge problem the church has with the secrecy of sexual abuse and has offered help to the victims of the abuse. Doyle was the first person to talk about this issue with church …show more content…
He says it himself in an interview that “the victims in these cases, they are the church” (Breslow). He is saying that the most important part of the church are the ones most damaged by the church and he has committed himself to help those people out. He is a great man who decided to stand up for something that all his peers said to cast aside. He sacrificed his career in the church to get his message across and is still talking about the issue. He seeks justice for the victims of sexual abuse by the church. He is someone who is inspirational because of his courage and commitment. I do not think that I can personally be strong enough to throw away everything just to give someone I do not know a voice. Thomas Doyle can sacrifice for the sake of justice and that is why he most exemplifies committed to
Doyle lives out his faith as an activist to help victims of abuse from the church and spreading the word of that abuse. He takes part in CatholicWhistleBlowers.org who talk about the churches mishandlings at great cost to their own careers in the clergy. Besides that, he has taken part in the report given to bishops about the issue of sexual abuse in the church and was punished for it, yet continues to voice the problem. He informed the layman of the church about the huge problem the church has with the secrecy of sexual abuse and has offered help to the victims of the abuse. Doyle was the first person to talk about this issue with church …show more content…
He says it himself in an interview that “the victims in these cases, they are the church” (Breslow). He is saying that the most important part of the church are the ones most damaged by the church and he has committed himself to help those people out. He is a great man who decided to stand up for something that all his peers said to cast aside. He sacrificed his career in the church to get his message across and is still talking about the issue. He seeks justice for the victims of sexual abuse by the church. He is someone who is inspirational because of his courage and commitment. I do not think that I can personally be strong enough to throw away everything just to give someone I do not know a voice. Thomas Doyle can sacrifice for the sake of justice and that is why he most exemplifies committed to