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       Cause for Father Flanagan Advances  
       By: Kerry Date: July 18, 2015, 8:04 pm
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       From  catholicvoiceomaha.com
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       People throughout the archdiocese had reason to celebrate June
       18 when the sainthood cause for Father Edward Flanagan, Boys
       Town’s founder, was advanced to the Vatican.
       But for some the occasion was especially significant: Boys Town
       residents and employees, Father Flanagan’s family, people who
       helped with the archdiocesan investigation through hard work and
       prayers, the people of his native Ireland and Archdiocese of
       Omaha priests.
       About 800 people witnessed the historic 9 a.m. Mass at St.
       Cecilia Cathedral in Omaha that marked the close of the
       archdiocesan phase of the canonization effort. It ended with a
       special ceremony to encase and officially seal four boxes –
       4,600 pages – of documents detailing the archdiocese’s
       three-year investigation.
       People from Boys town attended, and members of Flanagan family.
       All kinds of people were there including an Irish Bishop:
       Among those concelebrating the Mass were Bishop Kevin Doran of
       Elphin, Ireland, Father Flanagan’s native diocese, and Father
       Patrick O’Toole, pastor of the parish in which Father Flanagan
       grew up in Ballymoe, Ireland.
       Bishop Doran said he holds up Father Flanagan as a model in his
       diocese. He said he tells 12-year-old confirmation students:
       "The Holy Spirit can do amazing things in your life, too, if you
       let him."
       Father Flanagan lived and preached the Gospel
       "unapologetically," Bishop Doran said, and knew "how to mediate
       God’s love to young people."
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