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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You held back my body from the pit, and delivered my foot from the power of Sheol. -Sirach 51: 1-2 It is 1961, and the author and essayist Pietro Di Donato is lying on a bed in a room at the Capuchin ...

The 1980s saw American pop culture come upon us with neon lights, ugly color combinations, a new evolution of clothing and a mad rush to video games. Locally, it marked a period when boys basketball ...

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 ...