A Closer Look
Summary: A Closer Look™ with Sheila Liaugminas features notable experts, newsmakers, elected officials, scholars and clergy on a variety of current event topics including social and moral issues, politics, and medical bioethics. Sheila and her guests put the news of the day into sharp focus from a uniquely Catholic perspective.
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Podcasts:
George Weigel: St. John Paul II legacy, impact on the universal Church, political regimes, cultures; JPII’s rich teachings abound and teach new generations how to build culture of life. St. John Paul II always challenged young people to “never settle for anything less than sainthood.” By talking “up” to people (not down) he became a […]
Fr. Robert Spitzer: All Hallows Eve and understanding the spiritual realm; high number of Millennials leaving religion behind, leaving God out of their lives, correlation between rejecting God & sacraments and rising rates of depression and despair; what’s essential to know about God, the soul, eternal life. Dark angels exist and we can haplessly call […]
Fr. Robert Gahl: ‘Pachamama’ translates as “mother earth” – we can worship God through his reflection in nature, we can perceive God in his creatures; figures used in recent ceremony are not part of any traditional pagan cult, however there is a pagan cult dedicated to Pachamama. Joe Biden being denied Holy Communion by parish […]
Nina Shea: UN conference on genocide & mass atrocities against Christians and other religious minorities; ‘The Rise of Global Religious Intolerance: The New Anti-Semitism & Alarming Trends in Christian & Minority Persecution’ Persecution of Christians: China and Nigeria among the most horrendous offenders. Christians face social hostility in 144 nations; increase in geographic scope and […]
Why is persecution of Christians in China getting even worse? The power of Prayer and Fasting; Jazz and sacred music Gordon Chang: The coming collapse of China. Amidst the growing global religious persecution, why is it getting so much worse in China? Maureen Flynn: International Prayer and Fasting Coalition; 9 days to change the world; […]
Today’s broadcast is an encore from 8/30: Sally Read: A call to faith in a broken world; God is with us always, even in suffering, spiritual dryness, depression; a mother’s loving response to a doubting daughter speaks to any believer. Sally’s conversion from atheism to Catholicism was witnessed by her four-year old daughter Flo. Even […]
Yesterday’s (10/25) show was an encore from 9/23… • Kathryn Jean Lopez: A Year With the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living; we need time for quiet and prayer to know God’s love and will, and truth about our lives, vocations, direction, faith; what saints who changed the world teach us today. https://www.amazon.com/Year-Mystics-Visionary-Wisdom-Living/dp/1505109043/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=kathryn+lopez+year+with+mystics&qid=1569263944&sr=8-1 Or https://www.tanbooks.com/index.php/a-year-with-the-mystics-visionary-wisdom-for-daily-living.html • Mysticism […]
Cassie Everts: Nursery of Heaven: Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Infant Loss in the Lives of the Saints and Today’s Parents. Sarah Tafoya experience of suffering the loss of a stillborn child. What a heroic, courageous, loving witness these friends give, in their book and on our air waves for listeners across the nation who have suffered […]
Fr. Robert Gahl: St. John Paul II’s influence on creating the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard’s ‘Institute for Quantitative Social Science and his role in it; teaching virtue theory, the narrative unity of life, and their complementarity with cognitive psychology. The truth will set us free; living in Jesus we find truth and joy. Terry […]
Dr. Gene Neri: Stress management; outrage fatigue and the toll of ongoing anger; chronic pain suffering; being part of your pain management plan with your doctor; the difference faith and prayer life can make in our health. You have to participate in stress management – if you have a plan for dealing with stress, and […]
Michael Kurek: The Sound of Beauty, a classical composer on music in the spiritual life; scientific explanations of sound waves and acoustics of music and their effect on people; need for return to beautiful sacred liturgical music. Music soothes the savage breast; David played for King Saul. If commercial music is the “junk food” of […]
Fr. Ubald Rugirangoga: Survivor of Rwandan Genocide; Author of ‘Forgiveness Makes You Free’; Founder of ‘The Center for the Secret of Peace’ spreading forgiveness, reconciliation, healing globally; evangelize everyone. “If you want to stop violence, you have to learn to forgive.” Fr. Ubald Rugirangoga. Prof. Robert Enright: ‘Forgiveness science’, why it’s essential for mental health; […]
Fr. Robert Spitzer: ‘The Essence of Things’; supernatural, transcendent realities; guardian angels, company of angels, good and bad angels; people who claim to be ‘spiritual but not religious’, give reasons to be Catholic’ How many guardian angels are we given? God has never been stingy in his creation! Caller: Carmen, a guardian angel saved her […]
Ed Morrissey: Decision to pull out of Northeast Syria, impact on Kurds, other religious minorities US supported in the region, long term consequences; Democratic candidates debate, who’s in & out, what issues they emphasize, how impeachment factors in, what voters care most about. www.hotair.com Kathryn Jean Lopez: Visionary wisdom for daily living, daily help & […]
Austin Walker: ‘The Making of a Modern Saint: John Henry Newman on Faith and Education in a Secular Age’; academic series for high school students applies Catholic intellectual thought to questions of education, biology, psychology, political science and theology. Andrew Walther: Knights of Columbus on their patron and the Catholic discoverer of our nation; the […]
