Boys file past the casket at Father Flanagan's funeral, held May 21, 1948 at Boys Town. Flanagan died on May 15 in Berlin, Germany. The 1,260 seat Boys Town Music Hall was inaugurated in 1949 and ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pope Leo XIV on Monday approved the advancement of the beatification cause for Boys Town founder Father Edward J. Flanagan, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lee Rood's investigation into Boys Town began, as so much good journalism does, with a reporter's curiosity. Rood, the Des Moines ...

BOYS TOWN, Neb. — In a large Tudor-style house on a quiet, well-kept cul-de-sac, Daniel Ocanto, 17, proudly shows a visitor his bedroom. Shy yet articulate, he talks about his love of classic rock — ...

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 ...

Boys Town High School is meeting the wrecking ball. The Omaha institution announced Wednesday it is demolishing the existing building to build a new 110,000 square foot facility in its place. In a ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Child advocate officials in Japan turned to an old friend to help with the country’s problem of excessive child abuse. Japanese officials said that help began years ago from a man ...

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 ...