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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

VATICAN CITY — To mark the centennial of St. Maria Goretti's death, Pope John Paul II issued a letter dated July 6 that proposed the young saint as a model of chastity and forgiveness, two themes that ...

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 ...

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 ...

These saints teach us that love is stronger than death and that our hope lies not in this world but in God’s loving embrace. LEFT: “Martyrdom of St Dymphna and St Gerebernus” by Jacques de l'Ange ...

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 ...

It may have turned slightly overcast on Friday evening, but this certainly didn’t stop over 1,100 athletes taking part in the ...

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 ...