Doyle actively encourages people to travel to Lourdes, to which he has a great attachment.[citation needed]
The Northampton diocese, together with the dioceses of Clifton, East Anglia, Portsmouth and Southwark, plus Stonyhurst College travel each year with the Catholic Association Pilgrimage to Lourdes. Doyle became the patron of the Catholic Association Hospitalité from 2012, on the retirement of Bishop Crispian Hollis.[4]