It was recently announced that Saint Maria Goretti in Washington County would close at the end of the 2023-24 school year. In 2019, a short four years ago, the school moved to its current location and ...

July 6 is the feast of St. Maria Goretti, an Italian girl who fought off an attempt at rape in 1902 and paid for it with her life. Pope Pius XII canonized her in 1950. I’ll admit that, every time July ...

On July 6 we commemorate the feast of St. Maria Goretti, one of the youngest canonized saints in the Catholic Church’s history. She was 11 years old at the time of her death. In March 2015, Pope ...

After nearly 70 years in the Hagerstown community, St. Maria Goretti Catholic High School completes its final academic year this week due to financial issues. Educating ninth through 12th graders ...

Editor's note: This story was updated at 2:15 p.m. to include a statement from the Archdiocese of Baltimore regarding its Chapter 11 filing and its ceasing of financial support for St. Maria Goretti ...

Former longtime St. Maria Goretti boys basketball coach Cokey Robertson called the Gael Center "the Palestra of the (Baltimore) Catholic League." On Friday, the final Goretti home basketball game was ...

Fittingly, St. Maria Goretti went out a winner. With the private Catholic high school set to close its doors for good at the end of this academic year, the Gaels took the field one last time Friday ...

Worshippers venerate the relics of St. Maria Goretti at St. John Cantius Church in Chicago Oct. 12. The major relics, which are virtually all of the skeletal remains of the saint, known as the ...