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 ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This story was updated at 3:16 p.m. Sept. 22, 2023, to correct the spelling of floodplain. The only Catholic high school in Washington County could shut down following the 2023-24 ...

HAGERSTOWN — After Saint Maria Goretti basketball joined the prestigious Baltimore Catholic League 40 years ago, the road games came with long drives home that gave legendary coach Cokey Robertson ...

Next week, Blessed Trinity Catholic Church will host the remains of St. Maria Goretti, the Catholic Church’s youngest saint, who died a martyr in 1902 in Nettuno, Italy, at age 11, after she fended ...

Two Catholic schools in Allegheny County will close while four others will merge into a single school in the South Hills in efforts to confront declining enrollment and climbing debt, officials ...

The monstrance that Janis Smith of Austin received from her late mother, who believed the small encasement contained a bone fragment belonging to St. Maria Goretti.(Janis Smith) Growing up, Janis ...

Some children at St. Maria Goretti’s had a hard time learning their elementary school would be closing for good this summer, several parents and community members lamented Thursday night. “They were ...

Chief rabbi of Rome says it’s unsurprising many know little of the Church's history of antisemitism, but focusing on newly ...

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‘Christ earned everything for us by his passion and death on the cross,’ said the Polish nun. ‘Direct your eyes to the cross like a flower to the sun.’ St. Julia Maria Ledóchowska in 1907, against a ...