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:
Salena Zito: co-author of The Great Revolt and reporter for the Washington Examiner and New York Post, discusses today’s events in the House of Representatives on impeachment, and how voters in rural and Rust Belt districts view the administration’s use of tariffs to reset trade policies. Marc Hart: executive VP of Life Teen International, gives […]
Duane Patterson, host of the Aftershow at hughniverse.com. He discusses the fallout over the impeachment vote yesterday, the possibility of a budget deal today, and the disturbing developments in the Persian Gulf today Peter Breen, of the Thomas More Society, updates us on the David Daleiden case in court. Attorneys have filed a motion for […]
Andrew Malcolm – The McClatchyDC.com columnist will discuss the superheated rhetoric in Washington, Mitch McConnell’s calls to dial down the temperature, and the inflammatory nature of accusations of racism in politics. Andrew Mangione – The senior VP of AMAC discusses their positioning as an alternative for seniors disaffected from AARP’s progressive politics, and how seniors […]
Carrie Severino, Judicial Crisis Network: ‘Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court’; the story behind the story of the Kavanaugh hearings. How and why the process broke down; campaign of personal destruction, and what it means for the judicial confirmation process in the future. Courts are increasing in the […]
Dr. Tod Worner: ‘Evangelization & Culture’, Word on Fire Institute new journal to engage the secular culture in dialogue about permanent things; intentionally lead with beauty, engage an uncertain culture & offer witness to the intellectual & mystical richness of the Catholic faith. There’s hunger from people being alienated from truth and the Church is […]
Dr. Francie Broghammer: ‘deconstructing marriage’; media articles, commentaries critiquing the institution of marriage, ‘modern marriage’, the ‘downside’ of isolation in a marriage vs. ‘freedom’ of unfettered single life, cohabitation; need to emphasize the reality of the bonds, blessings of matrimony. Marriage and loneliness. Marriage is a good and there is a community that stands behind […]
Dan Gainor: Facebook’s new audit led to ‘civil rights task force’ to determine ‘objectionable content’, likely leading to more censorship of conservative groups and people; new poll shows majority of voters don’t trust Facebook or Twitter, and believe ‘big tech’ has too much control over availability of information. Ed Morrissey: Will Obamacare be judged unconstitutional?; […]
Fr. Robert Spitzer: New HHS announcement to halt use of stem cells from tissue of aborted babies in government research; unlimited abortion license defies reason, justice, human rights, conscience rights; science must have moral limits; the essence of human life and nature. *Today’s broadcast is an encore from June 5, 2019 (A Closer Look’s second […]
Isaac Cuevas – Archdiocese of LA call to action on Tuesday’s hearing of ‘confessional bill’ at the Capitol. The Church is not trying to defend/protect Priests; the Church is defending the confessional. Priests are willing to go to jail to protect the Sacrament of Reconciliation. We want to protect and defend children; we have to […]
Fr. Robert Spitzer comments on California Senate Bill 360, state of California, trying to break the seal of the confessional. You cannot undo one injustice with a greater injustice. Priests rarely learn of abuse in a confessional; priests are already mandated reporters and when abuse is discovered in counseling situations appropriate protocol is followed. Justice […]
Congressman Jeff Fortenberry: House Border Bill; America’s values proposition and what we celebrate this Independence Day. No safe process at border when chaos exists; abusive to the asylum system: about 90% of people claiming asylum don’t show up on court date. Carrie Severino, Judicial Crisis Network: Supreme Court session review, key rulings; Chief Justice Roberts […]
Bear Woznick: Refuting the ‘toxic masculinity’ meme and why it’s so harmful to men’s roles in family, society; ‘a manly man is a man who prays’; calling men and women to heroic virtue, deepening the commitment to spiritual life and practice of faith and devotion. Antidote to toxic masculinity: men, stand up to bullying. Men […]
Dr. Samuel Gregg: ‘Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization’: the West is under grave attacks from radical forces abroad, and from within by aggressive secularism; recovering fundamental truths and foundation of faith & reason, understanding their connection, will renew civilization. We can’t help but ask questions about where everything began. Religious liberty relies […]
Jason Jones: ‘Men can’t stay silent as our children get aborted’; ‘men not advancing rights of women, they’re washing their hands of them’; protect woman and child; Democratic debates show abortion extremism but passion for protecting migrant children; no logic, all politics. Often, men feel bullied into abortions; men have something important to say. Msgr. […]
Prof. Paul Kengor, Robert Orlando: ‘The Divine Plan’, book & documentary film for 30th anniversary of fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of communism; features top biographers of John Paul II and Ronald Reagan, Cold War historians, theologians; includes George Weigel, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Bishop Robert Barron. Democratic socialism is sweeping the country lack […]
