There is no such thing as a bad boy. This phrase was etched into public consciousness by a 1938 film, Boys Town, a sentimental tear-jerker starring Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney. It is based on a ...

Edward Gary Meek, Sr., age 89, passed away on Friday, March 27, 2026, at his home in the presence of his family. Left to mourn his passing are his wife of 69 years, Shirley Ann Thomas Meek; his son, ...

Boys Town students hold portraits of Boys Town founder Father Edward Flanagan outside St. Cecilia Cathedral in Omaha, Neb., Feb. 27, 2012. (Credit: Nati Harnik/AP.) Listen Pope Leo XIV put Father ...

An Irish-born priest whose groundbreaking approach to child poverty inspired an Oscar-winning film, has now taken a significant step towards becoming a saint. Fr Edward Flanagan set up a sanctuary in ...

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Pope Leo XIV put the Rev. Edward Joseph Flanagan a step closer to possible sainthood Monday as he proclaimed the "heroic virtues" of the founder of Boys Town, a Nebraska home for at-risk youths that ...

SERVE. IF ELECTED. THE PRIMARY IS MAY 12TH. POPE LEO THE 14TH RECOGNIZES FATHER FLANAGAN’S VIRTUES, GIVING HIM THE TITLE. VENERABLE FLANAGAN FOUNDED BOYS TOWN IN OMAHA IN 1917. THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ...

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Pope Leo XIV put the Rev. Edward Joseph Flanagan a step closer to possible sainthood Monday as he proclaimed the “heroic virtues” of the founder of Boys Town, a Nebraska home for at-risk youths that ...

Pope Leo XIV on Monday approved the advancement of the beatification cause for Boys Town founder Father Edward J. Flanagan, declaring him “Venerable.” His life and legacy were immortalized in the 1938 ...