TV Picks 06.12.16

SUNDAY, June 12, noon

Great Performances at the Met: Turandot

PBS Dramatic soprano Nina Stemme sings the title role, and Paolo Carignani conducts Franco Zeffirelli’s 1987 production.
 

SUNDAY, June 12, 6pm

Light From Light

EWTN In this episode, “Anger Management,” Father George Rutler supplies practical Christian strategies to overcome anger. Re-airs 5am Saturday.
 

TUESDAY-FRIDAY, June 14-17, 6:30pm

Last Call: Stories of Late Vocations

EWTN In this four-part series, Catholic author, speaker and philosophy professor Ronda Chervin asks priests and seminarians about their call to the priesthood, their pursuit of their goal and their tips for discerning a call from God. Re-airs 2:30am.
 

WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY, June 15-17, 9:30pm

Icons Spotlight

EWTN In this new three-part miniseries, Franciscan Friars of the Renewal Brothers Angelus and Innocent Montgomery, who are twins, interview young Catholic “living icons”: a man who helps homeless people, a couple who adopted a baby with special needs and a woman who assists newly arrived legal immigrants.
 

TUESDAY, June 21, 7pm, live

Opening Mass of the Fortnight for Religious Freedom

EWTN The theme of this year’s U.S. bishops’ fortnight against governmental anti-life pressure is “Witnesses to Freedom.” The observance opens in Baltimore, the vigil of the feast of the martyrs Sts. John Fisher and Thomas More, with Mass from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The fortnight will conclude on Independence Day. Re-airs midnight.
 

WEDNESDAY, June 22, 9pm

Nova: Nazi Attack on America

PBS Starting in 1942, German submarines sank 609 American ships off the Eastern seaboard and the Gulf Coast. Undersea explorer Bob Ballard interviews historians and German navy veterans, and his probe of the wreck of a World War II German sub off New Orleans proves that a captain relieved of duty by the Navy did sink the vessel after all.
 

WEDNESDAY, June 22, 10pm

A Man for All Seasons

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES This 1966 classic about St. Thomas More’s martyrdom for standing fast against English King Henry VIII’s assaults on the sacrament of matrimony and religious liberty strikes a relevant chord today. Advisory: TV-PG.
 

FRIDAY, June 24, 9pm

Handcrafted America

INSP In each episode of this new series, Jill Wagner visits three skilled craftsmen and watches them fashion their creations.
 

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, June 24-25, live

Pope Francis’ Apostolic Visit to Armenia

EWTN After a welcome ceremony in Ereván on Friday, the Holy Father will visit the Armenian Apostolic Church’s Echmiadzin Cathedral, speak in the presidential palace and meet the Catholicos, Karekin II. On Saturday, he will visit a memorial complex and fly to Gyumri to celebrate Mass and visit the Apostolic and Catholic cathedrals. Back in Ereván, he will take part in an ecumenical meeting and prayer for peace. He will conclude his trip on Sunday. See EWTN.com for times.

Dan Engler writes from
Santa Barbara, California.