The fundamental mission of St. Maria Goretti School in Hatfield, PA is to respond to the call of Christ and share faithfully in the Church’s vocation of building God’s kingdom on earth. In a loving Christian environment, the student experiences the fourfold nature of the Church: message, worship, community and service.
On June 4, 1953, His Eminence, John F. O'Hara, Archbishop of Philadelphia, established a new parish under the patronage of St. Maria Goretti, in Hatfield, Pennsylvania. Father Thomas Doyle was appointed founding pastor and he immediately requested the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, a community dedicated to the apostolate of education, to staff his school.
