Thomas Patrick Doyle (born 1944[citation needed]) is an American inactive Catholic priest, formerly of the Dominican Order.
[citation needed] Doyle was one of the first people in the Catholic church to bring attention to sexual abuse by clergy.
In 1985, along with fellow priest and doctor Michael Peterson and the lawyer Ray Mouton, Doyle authored a report on medical and legal issues raised by pedophilia in the priesthood, and warned of heavy legal and financial consequences if the hierarchy did not act [1] [2] He later[when?]
[3] His work with clergy abuse survivors has been featured in the documentaries Holy Water-Gate: Abuse Cover-up in the Catholic Church, Deliver Us From Evil, Alex Gibney's Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, in Robert Kaiser's book Whistle: Fr.
Doyle's Steadfast Witness for Victims of Clerical Abuse, and on PBS's show Frontline episode Secrets of the Vatican.