The challenge for us might be to trust God, knowing that he wants what’s best for us and that he knows us better than we know ourselves.

Pastoral musicians and liturgical music publishers have jumped in to help struggling church musicians through “As Music Heals,” an emergency assistance fund.

Jesuit Father Francis X. Moan, a Baltimore native who eventually became a headmaster at his alma mater, Loyola Blakefield, and later tirelessly worked to improve the lives of refugees in America, died April 17 from complications of COVID-19, his family said. He was 93.

Dr. Robert Wicks, a clinical psychologist, bestselling author and professor emeritus at Loyola University Maryland, was our guest on the April 19 “Catholic Baltimore” radio show. He offers some advice for ways of dealing with the stresses and anxieties brought on by the coronavirus pandemic and also discusses the role of spirituality in alleviating those stresses.

It’s hard not to be able to walk twenty-two steps across the hall to ask your friend for help. It’s hard not to know what the future of virtual education looks like.