OMAHA, Neb. — The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Omaha announced Monday that it has completed its investigation into the life and virtue of the Rev. Edward Flanagan, another step in efforts to have ...
Boys Town believes that these boys were the first five children — or at least among the first — to reside at Boys Town when it opened on Dec. 12, 1917, in a run-down Victorian mansion that Father ...
Father Flanagan founded the Boys Town orphanage in a downtown Omaha home in 1917. An effort that began more than a decade ago to seek sainthood for the Rev. Edward Flanagan, the founder of Boys Town, ...