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:
On today’s show: Gender Dysphoria, the Transgender Movement and Science. Cultivating Good Shepherds. Guest, Dr. Michael Laidlaw, Endocrinologist: Dangers of transgender ideology in schools; harms of hormone therapy for adolescent ‘gender dysphoria’; why doctors must speak. Children are exposed to transgender ideology online; children on the autism spectrum are particularly vulnerable. Guest, Archbishop Joseph Kurtz: […]
On today’s show: Topics ‘Body Integrity; Definition of Death; Organ Donation; How to Offer Gift of Life’ Guest, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty: Doctors and issues with the word ‘death’, definition of death; ‘physician assisted dying’; organ donation as gift. Catholic church has always seen organ donation as an act of charity; do we see our bodies […]
On today’s show: ‘Manual Labor, Jobs, Tariffs, Big Data, Tech Giants and the Blockchain Economy’ Guest, Dr. Jay Richards, CUA: Will manual labor disappear?; the ‘greed myth’ and other economic illusions; realities of free markets and tariffs. Link: https://business.catholic.edu/news/2018/02/labor.html Consumer awareness of bespoke labor (handmade/small batch products) on the rise; farmer’s markets booming; Catholic view balances […]
On today’s show: Guest, Nina Shea, Hudson: US Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom; living with genocide four years after ISIS launched attacks; what’s being done. Link: https://www.hudson.org/events/1585-living-with-genocide-four-years-after-isis-attacked82018 (another possibility: https://www.hudson.org/research/14285-n-for-nazarene ) Guest, Andrew Walther, Knights of Columbus: Government efforts to protect international religious freedom; humanitarian aid and relief in the Cradle of Christianity. Link: http://www.kofc.org/en/columbia/detail/rebuilding-the-cradle-of-christianity.html […]
On today’s show: ‘Pope Changes Teaching on Capital Punishment; Mercy in Death Row Nun’s ministry’ Guest, Msgr. Stuart Swetland Link: https://zenit.org/articles/pope-francis-decides-to-update-church-catechism-to-assert-church-teaching-against-use-of-death-penalty/ We should see Christ in those who are incarcerated and take the opportunity to minister to prisoners and the victims of their crimes. Guest, Joyce Duriga joins the show to discuss her new book, Death […]
On today’s show: ‘On Human Life: Pope Paul VI’s Prophetic Encyclical; Pope Francis’ Death Penalty Change’ Guest, Dr. Janet Smith: ‘Why Humanae Vitae Is Still Right’; profoundly prophetic teaching, Theology of the body, grounded in Scripture, human truth. Link: https://www.ignatius.com/Why-Humanae-Vitae-Is-Still-Right-P3065.aspx If you love your friends, you tell them the truth…we have to live according to […]
On today’s show: ‘Reliable Church Leaders; Faithful Ministry; Treating & Healing Life’ Guest, Fr. Jerry Pokorsky: Reliability of faithful religious leaders; marriage open to babies, ministers of new life; dangers of the contraceptive mentality. Link: https://www.crisismagazine.com/2018/placing-trust-in-religious-leaders or https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2018/05/31/ministers-not-masters/ The church is holy, beautiful and good – our faith is the solution in times of crisis. Priests […]
Topics ‘Prayer, Devout Faith, Catechetics Can Change Everything’ Guest, Kathryn Lopez Catholics Beginning Again’; Humanae Vitae, Theodore McCarrick and the call; being living witnesses we were made for; renew culture. Link: https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/humane-vitae-message-more-important-than-ever/ Guest, Greg Schleppenbach: USCCB ‘Novena for the Legal Protection of Human Life’; national prayer effort to shape Supreme Court for truth and justice. […]
On today’s show: ‘Church Turning Point; Calls for Accountability, Lay Involvement’ Guest, John Allen of www.CruxNow.com : Historic resignation of a cardinal, evidence Pope Francis means ‘zero tolerance’ includes everyone; breakthrough in accountability. Link: https://cruxnow.com/news-analysis/2018/07/29/no-question-pope-francis-made-history-saturday-on-mccarrick/ The majority of bishops across the country are good and holy men; they need to know they have support from […]
On today’s show: Guest, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty: joins the show to discuss treatments and remedies to anxiety (it’s even in today’s Gospel in Matthew 13); rising rates of anxiety, contributing factors; helpful management strategies. Link: https://www.cacatholic.org/hope_and_healing A certain amount of stress is natural in life; but Dr. Kheriaty encourages us to look at the fruits […]
On today’s show: ‘Building Culture of Life Through Films’ Movie to Movement guests Jason Jones, and Director, David Cunningham join today’s show to discuss the new film, Running for Grace which tackles issues of love, race, adoption, identity and hope. Movie to Movement takes on films that reveal the truth and dignity of the human […]
On today’s show: ‘Humanae Vitae, What We Now Know, the Need to Live’ Guest, Msgr. Stuart Swetland, Link: https://relevantradio.com/listen/our-shows/go-ask-father/ Humanae Vitae released on the Feast of St. James; human dignity upheld; the mind of Christ is receptivity, where the world would have us manipulate. Satanist converts to Catholicism – unveils witness to the power of […]
On today’s show: ‘Humanae Vitae’s Teachings; Catholic Voters’ Concerns’ Guest, Fr. Robert Gahl, can Humanae Vitae’s teachings change? Link: http://m.ncregister.com/daily-news/can-humanae-vitaes-teachings-change#.W1dllNJKiM9 Shedding more light on Humanae Vitae, Pope Francis intends that the message of Paul IV awaken consciences today. Guest, Brian Burch Link: https://catholicvote.org/ Dems mid-term election strategy will likely be to hold SCOTUS seat open […]
On today’s show: Guest: Congressman Jeff Fortenberry – ‘Who is Putin?’; alleged Russian meddling; why dialogue with Russia is essential, and what content that dialogue should include. Link: https://fortenberry.house.gov/media-center/fort-reports/fort-report-helsinki Dialogue is important…the US was in conversation with Russia during the Cold war, and it ended. Guest, Irene Jarosewich: Former Ukrainian journalist reports on deeper roots […]
On today’s show: Mental health system needs an overhaul. How can we stem the rising tide of suicide, depression. Dr. Francie Broghammer, resident psychiatrist at U. C. Irvine. Caller: Mental Illness vs. manipulative behavior: How does one tell the difference? Addiction: Self-medication, and a coping mechanism. Different forms of mental illness. The Bishops of California issue […]
