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.

Religion in America not in decline after all?

Sheila Liaugminas | 30 Apr 2009

We knew that. So when the president tells the world that we’re not a Christian or Jewish nation (or Muslim) but a ‘nation of citizens’, he was spinning his own agenda for a new approach to diplomacy.

It's one thing to defend Notre Dame's decision

Sheila Liaugminas | 29 Apr 2009

The Spectre of the future

Sheila Liaugminas | 29 Apr 2009

Arlen Specter, the longtime Republican senator who switched parties Tuesday, admitted Wednesday the move was driven partly by a desire to keep his seat.

If they keep asking questions....ignore 'em

Sheila Liaugminas | 29 Apr 2009

President Obama has controlled the White House press corps and most of mainstream media from the beginning. He does not like to be asked tough questions, and tends to get testy with reporters who ask them. Which isn’t often, since the media have been largely complicit in spreading Obama’s message according to talking points.

The golden tongue and the golden dome

Sheila Liaugminas | 28 Apr 2009

Though timeless wisdom says you can fool all of the people some of the time, even Barack Obama can’t evade the scrutiny of alternative media.

Glendon for ambassador

Sheila Liaugminas | 28 Apr 2009

With the Obama administration having trouble finding an appropriate ambassador to the Vatican, I’ve been saying for the past few weeks he should return Mary Ann Glendon to that post. Looks like that suggestion is more apt….and more unlikely….than ever.

Declining Notre Dame

Sheila Liaugminas | 27 Apr 2009

It’s the letter scholar and former US ambassador to the Vatican Mary Ann Glendon sent to Notre Dame president Fr. Jenkins.

Big decision about the ND commencement

Sheila Liaugminas | 27 Apr 2009

And it isn’t that Notre Dame’s administration has realized they shouldn’t be awarding a pro-abortion president the doctorate of laws.

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