{"id":361667,"date":"2026-03-24T00:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/361667\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T00:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:12:09","slug":"fr-edward-flanagan-roscommon-born-priest-is-now-a-step-closer-to-sainthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/361667\/","title":{"rendered":"Fr Edward Flanagan: Roscommon-born priest is now a step closer to sainthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Pope Leo grants Fr Edward Flanagan, founder of Boys Town, \u2018venerable\u2019 status\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fr Edward Flanagan died in 1948 - he is now on the road to sainthood\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4_ab74_68e41c465465.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Fr Edward Flanagan died in 1948 &#8211; he is now on the road to sainthood<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">An Irish priest who pioneered a new model of care for disadvantaged boys in the US and was the subject of a Hollywood film has moved a step closer to sainthood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">On Monday, Pope Leo announced that Co Roscommon priest Fr Edward Flanagan, who died in 1948, had been recognised as venerable. This means he is two miracles away from becoming a saint. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pope Leo grants Fr Edward Flanagan, founder of Boys Town, \u2018venerable\u2019 status Fr Edward Flanagan died in 1948&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12780,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-361667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-catholic-church","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}