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.

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"The human rights of women"

Sheila Liaugminas | 22 Mar 2012

As declared, or addressed, by the 56th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

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Obama expands contraception mandate

Sheila Liaugminas | 19 Mar 2012

Late last Friday when many Americans and certainly church leaders and were preparing for St. Patrick’s Day ceremonies and the fourth Sunday of Lent, the White House dropped a surprise announcement. As if no one would notice.

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'Not even Jesus' ministry would qualify for the exemption'

Sheila Liaugminas | 16 Mar 2012

Since the administration keeps insisting it made an “exemption” or “accommodation” for religious objection to the Obama contraceptive mandate, let’s take a closer look at what exactly that is.

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Women's health and HHS

Sheila Liaugminas | 13 Mar 2012

How oddly sci-fi that perceived connection has become.

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"This isn't about Catholics or contraception"

Sheila Liaugminas | 11 Mar 2012

“This is about the government coercing religious institutions to violate their own beliefs.”

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Women speak for themselves

Sheila Liaugminas | 9 Mar 2012

And in greater numbers, they’re showing up in media and the public forum to say the HHS, Kathleen Sebelius, Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, and Nancy Pelosi don’t speak for them.

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Journalism under fire: after the story at all cost

Sheila Liaugminas | 6 Mar 2012

For veteran journalists, this is always personal. Whether we were on any front lines, or were colleagues of those who were sent out, it’s our story. To me it transcends brash socio-political battles in popular media, though it’s tinged with that too. But that aside, the news of New York Times journalist Anthony Shadid’s death hit hard.

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What Breitbart leaves us

Sheila Liaugminas | 4 Mar 2012

Andrew Breitbart was passionately invested in the battle of ideas engaged through social media. He was a thought warrior whose presence was so pervasive, it’s hard to believe we’re talking about him in the past tense.

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