Sheila Liaugminas

Sheila Liaugminas is an Emmy award-winning Chicago-based journalist in print and broadcast media.

Her writing and broadcasting covers matters of faith, culture, politics and the media. She reported for Time magazine in its Midwest Bureau for over 20 years. At Chicago’s NBC-owned station, she co-hosted the TV magazine program YOU. Sheila formerly hosted three radio programs, The Right Questions; and Issues & Answers for Relevant
Radio, and America’s Lifeline on the Salem network.

Besides her work on MercatorNet, Sheila has published in the Chicago Tribune, Crain’s Chicago Business, Crisis Magazine, Voices Magazine, National Catholic Register, Catholic New World, the Center for Morality in Public Life blog Ethika Politika and the National Review Online.

She currently hosts the daily radio program A Closer Look on Relevant Radio and serves as the Network News Director.


Administration digs in on HHS mandate

Sheila Liaugminas | 12 Feb 2012
Back in 2008 when Barack Obama was running for president, his media and message-savvy team smugly dubbed him ‘no drama Obama,’ so controlled was his image. They’re going to have to come up with something new for 2012.


The impact of Obama silencing military chaplains

Sheila Liaugminas | 8 Feb 2012
Enough was already enough with this administration trampling conscience rights and religious liberties protected in the Constitution. Than he clamped down on speech rights of Army chaplains, for crying out loud.


Big abortion's 'gangster tactics'

Sheila Liaugminas | 6 Feb 2012
Some big media writers are using strong language to criticize the strongarm tactics Planned Parenthood used on the Komen foundation last week.


What did we learn from the Komen-PP fiasco?

Sheila Liaugminas | 6 Feb 2012
It has been deeply revealing and we have learned much.


About Komen's reversal...

Sheila Liaugminas | 5 Feb 2012
First, the backoff happened with head-spinning swiftness. Second, it’s still unclear what the statement by the breast cancer awareness foundation really meant.


Komen defunds Planned Parenthood

Sheila Liaugminas | 1 Feb 2012
It seemed to take a long time to get public admission that the breast cancer awareness giant was even giving funds to the abortion giant. Once they did, they tried to focus on the good they intended it to do, and discounted the potential harm. Now, there’s no denial.


Obama tests faith boundaries

Sheila Liaugminas | 1 Feb 2012
He won election with a slim majority of Catholic voters because enough progressives believed his policies aligned with social justice mandates of the Gospel. He just lost them with a mandate of his own.


Conscience rights precede politics

Sheila Liaugminas | 30 Jan 2012
The Obama administration did what no one or nothing else has seemed able to do in recent history in one sweeping stroke…galvanize Catholics who were otherwise evenly divided for and against his policies.

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