SUNDAY, June 28, 10pm

Ends of the Earth

EWTN In this 2010 documentary, 17 students from St. Joan of Arc Catholic Secondary School in Mississauga, Canada, go on pilgrimage to the Diocese of Whitehorse in the Yukon, where they meet missionaries who are doing God’s work. Re-airs at 5am Thursday.
 

Solemn Mass and Blessing of the Pallia

EWTN The pallium, a band worn around the shoulders, symbolizes Christ the Good Shepherd carrying his lambs and is a symbol of ecclesiastical authority and jurisdiction. At this Mass, Pope Francis will bless the pallia, which are to be conferred on new metropolitan archbishops in their home archdioceses. Re-airs at noon.
 

At Home With Jim & Joy

EWTN Guest Reggie Littlejohn heads Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, which opposes forced abortion, sex slavery and sex-selection gendercide in China. She explains that the communists’ one-child policy has created a dearth of women, which has increased human trafficking. Re-airs at 5pm Friday and 2am Sunday.
 

Johnny Tremain

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES Hal Stalmaster and Luana Patten star in this 1957 film, based on the 1943 novel by Esther Forbes (1891-1967) about a teen in Boston who joins the American Revolution. Advisory: Scene of a burn-deformed hand. At 10pm, The Liberty Story, also from 1957, presents “Johnny Tremain” scenes and the animated “Ben and Me,” in which Amos, a mouse, gives Benjamin Franklin good ideas.
 

Closing Mass for the Fortnight for Freedom

EWTN Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington and homilist Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia will celebrate Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Re-airs at midnight.
 

A Capitol Fourth

PBS The National Symphony Orchestra, military bands, pop artists and fireworks will salute Independence Day. Re-airs at 9:30pm.
 

Tour de France 2015

NBC SPORTS NETWORK This year’s Tour de France bicycle race will begin in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and will conclude 2,276 miles later in dramatic fashion on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. Broadcast times to be determined.
 

G.K. Chesterton: Apostle of Common Sense

EWTN In this episode, “How to Think,” host Dale Ahlquist, apologist, convert from evangelicalism and co-founder of the American Chesterton Society, cites the works of the English author and convert G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) to offer remedies for modern people’s inability to think rationally.

Dan Engler writes from
Santa Barbara, California.