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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.
June 04, 2020Ministering to Blue, Pray for Frontline, HotAir, Defunding Planned Parenthood 6.4.20Fr. Dan Brandt: Chicago Police Dept. Chaplain, ‘Your partner has your back, but we’ve got your soul’; resources and outreach in the time of pandemic, public unrest & protests over police actions in Floyd case; police chaplain speaks to the toll Covid-19 is taking on CPD members psychologically and spiritually, and more important, about trying […]...more50minPlay
June 03, 2020No Life, No Rights; All Moral Issues Are Pro-Life; All Human Life Deserves Respect 6.3.20Ryan Bomberger: Not Equal: Civil Rights Gone Wrong; some humans are still not seen as equal, what we have to do now to start changing that for good; life has purpose, find and build on that every day; use this opportunity and time for solidarity. Fr. Michael Zimmer: Rural pastor, Air Force Chaplain, posts letter […]...more49minPlay
June 02, 2020Finding & Applying Solutions to Social Unrest; Holding US Government, China Accountable 6.2.20Kendall Qualls: In a letter from his wife to their children: Don’t let people like rogue officers or evil people change your perception of people and this country. We all can do well by looking at another person’s experience. Robert Charles: AMAC leader, former US Asst Secretary of State on urgently needed small business rescue […]...more49minPlay
June 01, 2020Chronic Stress Getting Worse? What to Do 6.1.20Dr. Gene Neri: The impact of chronic stress on whole health; we have to be part of our stress treatment and management, work with appropriate medical experts; what effect does an active prayer and spiritual life have on physical & mental health?; everyone is stressed, what should we do to find, spread peace? Gratitude: we’re […]...more51minPlay
May 29, 2020Pro-Life Leader on Violence, Racism, Human Dignity, Civil Rights; Papal Biographer on the Next Pope & Future of Catholicism 5.29.20Ryan Bomberger: ‘Not Equal: Civil Rights Gone Wrong’; horrific and avoidable tragedies of violence against classes of people by people with power to harm or eliminate them; pro-life means all life has dignity & rights; address issues of poverty, family, fatherlessness, racism, free speech, other First Amendment rights. George Weigel: The long Cardinal Pell ordeal […]...more51minPlay
May 28, 2020Mental Health in Time of Covid; Impact of Social Distancing, Isolation, Historic Life Changes; Help & Hope 5.28.20Dr. Aaron Kheriaty: Mental health during an ongoing, historic pandemic; impact of shutdowns, dramatic changes in personal and family lives; higher ‘deaths of despair’ suicide rate, depression, isolation, fear, panic, anxiety; effects of social distancing, isolation; ethics of pandemic triage; help & hope. Pandemic has worsened mental illnesses prone toward despair and/or depression. Feeling cut […]...more51minPlay
May 27, 2020Holy Spirit’s Role in the Trinity, Action in Our Lives; Reasons to be Catholic 5.27.20Fr. Robert Spitzer: Pentecost closer look at the Holy Spirit’s role and action in our lives; ‘The Holy Spirit is the third distinct act of self-consciousness’ he says, what does that mean?; ‘The Spirit completes the timeless loving relationship within the Trinity as a child completes the loving relationship in a family’ Caller, Mary from […]...more51minPlay
May 26, 2020Seeing & Serving the Most Vulnerable Lives at Risk; Giving Dignity to the Needy, Voice to the Voiceless 5.26.20Dallas Carter & Jason Jones: Flatten the deadly hunger curve; helping seniors during coronavirus outbreak in Hawaii, model program to feed and assist the most needy, vulnerable citizens; ‘nine missed meals away from anarchy’, countries sitting on a ‘food security time bomb’, what we can do. Jason Jones: How the FX documentary ‘AKA Jane Roe’ […]...more51minPlay
May 22, 2020Prayer v. Pandemic; Churches, Masses & the Spiritual Life Never Shut Down 5.22.20Fr. Rocky Hoffman: Relevant Radio’s Marian Pentecost Novena; ‘Mary at the Crossroads of History’; president demands governors allow churches to open. John Harper: Prayer v. pandemic, Marian novena, churches reopening in some states (while not yet in others), how to use our quarantine time well; interesting news not being covered (or covered well) but people […]...more49minPlay
May 21, 2020Jane Roe Film & the Facts; Plague Literature & the Classics in Time of Covid 5.21.20Allan Parker: Lawyer for Norma McCorvey says ‘Don’t trust the FX documentary, producers befriended then betrayed Norma’; her efforts to reverse Roe v. Wade, asking Supreme Court to hear her case again, arguments filed in her ‘Rule 60 Motion’ have still not been ruled on by the Court to this day; the true story. Dr. […]...more49minPlay
FAQs about A Closer Look:How many episodes does A Closer Look have?The podcast currently has 832 episodes available.