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.

When the news hits home

Sheila Liaugminas | 14 Apr 2009

This afternoon, I received a sudden and urgent email from a friend about another pirate incident happening real time that hadn’t even broken the news yet.

Divide and conquer?

Sheila Liaugminas | 14 Apr 2009

Christian America is already seriously divided. But there’s a new campaign going on to render Christianity irrelevant in all its factions.

Notre Dame's other controversial speaker

Sheila Liaugminas | 13 Apr 2009

Back in 1984, Governor Mario Cuomo delivered what would become a very famous (or infamous) speech at the University of Notre Dame.

How a state school sees the honor thing

Sheila Liaugminas | 13 Apr 2009

While so many schools confer honorary degrees on high-profile speakers these days that we hardly think of what it means, the Notre Dame controversy brings that question back into focus. Especially when a state school takes another tack -- on sheer intellectual reasoning.

Awwwwww

Sheila Liaugminas | 13 Apr 2009

Meet Bo Obama, first doggie.

Say something often enough

Sheila Liaugminas | 12 Apr 2009

And it becomes truth. Especially when powerful politicians and influential media are saying the same thing. Perception becomes reality.

Tightening the noose in Texas

Sheila Liaugminas | 12 Apr 2009

The creeping trend to marginalize people who are seriously ill and deny them treatment is manifesting in many laws and states.

'How not to express faith convictions'

Sheila Liaugminas | 11 Apr 2009

The Superior General of The Congregation of Holy Cross, which originally founded the University of Notre Dame and still fills the presidency there, recently issued a letter to President Barack Obama.

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