St. Maria Goretti, whose feast is celebrated on July 6, is one of the youngest canonized saints in the Catholic Church. Her powerful testimony of forgiveness shows how someone’s life can dramatically ...

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 ...

St. Maria Goretti (1890-1902) was unusual at the time of her canonization and remains — as holiness always is — a sign of contradiction today. She was canonized in 1950. Until St. John Paul II’s ...

Catholics worldwide celebrate the feast day of one of the youngest saints on July 6: St. Maria Goretti. At just 11 years old, she died a martyr after being fatally stabbed. Today, the Church ...

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 the St. Maria Goretti baseball team beat Riverdale Baptist 10-0 in six innings in the Old Line League championship game Tuesday to finish the season 20-2, longtime skipper Greg Eversole couldn’t ...