Father Flanagan ‘Boystown’ founder now a “Servant of God” as sainthood process begins - VIDEO

I loved the filim, but was it based on fact ? I know of one priest who should be made a saint, he was Fr. Leo Mccormack who ran the boys orphanage in Domnick st in Dublin for many years, when he took it over in the 1950's it was a dismal institution, he turned it into a home. As a child my mother would take some of the boys for a couple of weeks during summer break, considering there was me and my 8 brothers, I was totally against more boys in my home. He married my parents who are 55 years married this year, he married me and ex- husband (no fault of his) But he was a saint for those boys and Im sure there are plenty more who get no recognition

On seeing Mickey Rooney's/Whitely Marsh's characteristically defiant adolescent scowl at authority figures (Father Flanagan/Spenccer Tracey), couldn't help think of Dublin working-class writer Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy, and his positive relationship with the Governor there and then.

So a suspected pederast is eligible for sainthood?

Ed Franagan was born near Ballymote, Co. Roscommon(1886), camme to U.S. in 1904, studied at Dunwoody Seminary, His was first parish was O'Neiill. Neb., where he worked at St. Patrick's Church. Spencer Tracy won an Oscar for praying Fr. Flanagan in 1938. The U.S. postal system issued a 4 cent stamp in honor of this priest. This is my question: In view of the enormous contribution this great priest made to his adopted country, why is now so very difficult for would-be emmgrants from Roscommon the other 31 Irish counties to get permanent U.S. visas?

How many Miracles have to be performed before he is announced as a Saint??? Have we heard of any??? Has anyone ever prayed to this Priest???? I'm a Housewife and I think I am a Saint!!!!

If the RCC thinks it's necessary to make him an official saint, ok. Official saint or not, Father Flanagan made significant contributions in his lifetime by taking care of homeless boys. His lifetime achievements speak for themselves. He's a saint already in God's eyes where it really matters - a member of the "communion of saints" because he lived and died in the Christian faith.

5. Priests, Pedophiles, and Boys Town The Franklin COVER UP. Hill eventually told me that he hadn’t been molested by anyone connected to Larry King, but by a Boys Town priest named Father James Kelly. He was familiar with many of the names on the “Leads List,” and put me in touch with a former roommate who had been a “mayor” of Boys Town. (The student body formerly elected a fellow student to serve as the mayor of Boys Town, which is an incorporated city with its own police force.)