Fr. Michael J. Doyle
Monsignor. Director of Toledo Catholic Charities 1935-1974. President of the National Conference of Catholic Charities, elected in 1961. A woman filed suit in 10/2002 claiming Doyle sexually abused her as a child in his office at St. Anthony’s Orphanage, where he was chaplain 1935-1977 and resided until 1980. She also alleged that at least two other orphans, including one he abused, knew of Doyle’s abuses. Doyle’s accuser claimed she tried to tell the nuns at the orphanage but was punished and transferred to a residential school for girls for being defiant. She also tried to tell the Diocese in 1973 but then-Bishop Donovan rejected her claims. One claim settled in 2004. Doyle died in 1987 at age 88. In 11/2024 the Diocese announced that a second allegation of child sexual abuse against Doyle was deemed credible by the Review Board and that his name was added to its list of accused. Doyle’s name was removed from the diocesan Pastoral Center – an action survivors had been advocating for since 2002.
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