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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... more
FAQs about A Closer Look:How many episodes does A Closer Look have?The podcast currently has 832 episodes available.
August 22, 2019(PD) Markets & Money Insights; Faith & Reason Fuller Picture 8.22.19Brian Battle, Performance Trust exists to inspire financial decision makers to pursue the Path of Great Performance™ and help them achieve results that surpass those they would otherwise attain. Investors reeling from recent drops and adjustments in market. Jonathan Fuqua, Faith and Reason – Philosophers explain their turn to Catholicism. Philosophers unfamiliar with theology tend […]...more57minPlay
August 21, 2019(PD) Cardinal, Church on Trial; Unjust Travesty; Catholics Need Faith Fortified, Shared 8.21.19George Weigel: Cardinal George Pell appeal denied in Australian court, in spite of no evidence of guilt, travesty of a trial; ‘an innocent bishop being made into a ritual scapegoat’ for ideological, political attacks on the Church. Link: https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/08/the-australian-disgrace Fr. Robert Spitzer: The diminishing belief in the True Presence in the Eucharist; ‘Why be Catholic?’; […]...more56minPlay
August 20, 2019Catholic Identity in Higher Education; Secular Ideologies in Schools; Teaching Morality to Students, Faith to the Culture 8.20.19Fr. Robert Gahl: John Paul II Institute says school’s identity is ‘seriously threatened’; how you understand Veritatis splendor will shape the way you view particular moral issues; NYT on ‘why our children don’t think there are moral facts’; IL schools require curriculum to teach contributions of LGBT in history. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/jpii-institute-vp-says-schools-identity-is-seriously-threatened-87402?fbclid=IwAR1h5UoyaMzawvZZjNaj37vN43wD_VcKEt8zziOqPwjR5KOLjU70Zp5Zjjk Mark Hart: ‘The 99’ system […]...more56minPlay
August 19, 2019Saving Lives and Souls; Protecting Christians Across the World 8.19.19Steve Auth: ‘Missionary of Wall Street’ managing money, saving souls on the streets of New York; market drops, impact on economy, ‘age of anxiety’ People need reminders they are loved by God; we are the face of God on the streets of New York. We have to be there for those people. Jason Jones: Films […]...more56minPlay
August 16, 2019Religious Freedom in America: Important Right to Protect & Defend 8.16.19Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop Jerome Listecki: Religious Freedom in America, its importance to nation’s Founders, the benefits to society of Catholic institutions providing education, health care, social services, etc; threats to religious freedom now from cultural elites. Link: Bill Donohue, Catholic League: Defense of religious freedom in many threats and legal challenges to its expression […]...more49minPlay
August 15, 2019Mary Most Powerful; Mass Renewal 8.15.19Dr. Carrie Gress: The Marian Option: God’s Solution to a Civilization in Crisis; The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity; Mary as the most powerful woman in the world and beyond. We can see Mary helping all people; we want to be known and loved, beautiful etc. and Our Lady is the model; […]...more49minPlay
August 15, 2019Mary Most Powerful; Mass Renewal 8.15.19Dr. Carrie Gress: The Marian Option: God’s Solution to a Civilization in Crisis; The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity; Mary as the most powerful woman in the world and beyond. We can see Mary helping all people; we want to be known and loved, beautiful etc. and Our Lady is the model; […]...more49minPlay
August 14, 2019Activist Judiciary Needs Reform; Breaking News; Abortion Workers Need Information & Exit Help 8.14.19Lathan Watts, First Liberty: The politicization of the judicial branch, judges acting like policymakers; is the judiciary becoming a mini legislature, bypassing lawmakers in the states and on Capitol Hill?; unelected judges issuing edicts from the bench. People using the Supreme Court as a mini legislature, which is not the role of the judiciary. Wendy […]...more49minPlay
August 14, 2019Activist Judiciary Needs Reform; Breaking News; Abortion Workers Need Information & Exit Help 8.14.19Lathan Watts, First Liberty: The politicization of the judicial branch, judges acting like policymakers; is the judiciary becoming a mini legislature, bypassing lawmakers in the states and on Capitol Hill?; unelected judges issuing edicts from the bench. People using the Supreme Court as a mini legislature, which is not the role of the judiciary. Wendy […]...more49minPlay
August 13, 2019Focus on the Eucharist, Liturgy, Priesthood, Family, Renewal 8.13.19Dr. Scott Hahn: The Eucharist in Scripture, biblical foundations of the Eucharist and the Church’s liturgy; the Priesthood and restoring Spiritual Fatherhood; Family as the First Society; authentic Catholic renewal based on these foundations. What Jesus wants to give us is a marriage, not a ring and a cake. Chad Pecknold: Why so few Catholics […]...more49minPlay
FAQs about A Closer Look:How many episodes does A Closer Look have?The podcast currently has 832 episodes available.