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Rome’s Hidden Churches: A Lenten Pilgrimage

EWTN Timothy O’Donnell, president of Christendom College, observes the ancient custom of visiting Rome’s “Stational Churches” during Lent. On Sunday, Feb. 23, he visits the Basilica of St. John Lateran and, afterwards, St. Peter in Chains, the Basilica of St. Mary Major, the Church of the Twelve Apostles, the Church of Santa Maria in Dominica, the Basilica of St. Clement, the Church of St. Cecilia and the Basilica of San Vitalis.
 

One Thing: God Alone

EWTN The Trappist monks of New Melleray Abbey in Peosta, Iowa, near Dubuque, belong to the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance. This documentary follows them as they follow Christ in their lives of prayer, solitude and work. Re-airs at 11pm Sunday.
 

The Crusades

EWTN This four-part 2014 docudrama miniseries from EWTN refutes perennial anti-Catholic distortion by portraying the Crusades as they really were. Historians and dramatizations reveal the reasons for the Crusades, their nature, their successes and failures, as well as their legacy. A re-airing from last October.
 

Life on the Rock

EWTN Tonight’s guests, Vince Petruccelli and Jacob Donaldson, students at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan., tell about their Communion and Liberation group’s Catholic activities. Re-airs at 4:30am Saturday, 2am Sunday and noon Tuesday.
 

Life Is Beautiful

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES This 1998 Holocaust-themed tragicomedy portrays the hope and quiet heroism of Guido (Roberto Benigni), an Italian Jew who wins the hand of Dora (Nicoletta Braschi) before the Nazis occupy Italy. Later, after they and their little son Giosue (Giorgio Cantarini) are sent to a slave-labor camp, Guido protects Giosue’s innocence by telling him that their enslavement is actually a big game and the eventual winner’s grand prize will be a big tank. Advisory: A-III, PG-13.
 

To Catch a Comet

PBS This documentary about the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft follows the craft’s 10-year, four-million-mile flight to the 2.5-mile-wide Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and its lander’s touchdown last Nov. 12. A re-airing. Note: PBS pledge-week programming could change the schedule; check local listings.
 

Living Mercy

EWTN A profile of Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church in Baton Rouge, La., which, since 2006, has been holding a Divine Mercy Mass, novena and Benediction on the nine Tuesdays before the feast of Divine Mercy. The parish and the community have benefitted greatly.
 

A Lenten Journey With Father Richard Ho Lung

EWTN In this program, “The Cross: the Call to Self-Denial,” Father Richard Ho Lung, founder of the Missionaries of the Poor, reminds us that we must die to ourselves so that Jesus might live in us.

Dan Engler writes from
Santa Barbara, California.