Pope Francis Concludes South America Visit

EWTN Pope Francis will conclude his South America visit today in Paraguay. He will visit the marshy and impoverished Bañado Norte area, say Mass for a throng in Ñu Guazú Park in Asunción, preside at a youth rally by the Costanera River and then leave for home. Check EWTN.com for times.
 

Sunday Night Prime

EWTN In this 2013 episode, “Treasure of Our Lady of Mount Carmel,” Father Andrew Apostoli discusses the Brown Scapular, of which Pope St. John Paul II wrote, “I also carry the scapular on my heart ... for the love that it nurtures toward the common Heavenly Mother, whose protection is continually springing forth.” Re-airs at 2am and 9am Monday.
 

Shark Island

DISCOVERY “Praise the Lord from the earth, you sea monsters and all the deeps of the sea,” we read in Psalm 148. This show studies the big, stocky bull shark.
 

Shirley Temple Films

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES Tonight’s slate salutes child-star Shirley Temple (1928-2014), America’s top box-office draw in the mid-1930s. She stars at 8pm in Stowaway (1936) with Robert Young and Alice Faye; at 9:45pm in Wee Willie Winkie (1937) with Victor McLaglen; at 11:45pm in Heidi (1937) with Jean Hersholt; at 1:30am in Little Miss Broadway (1938) with Catholic actors George Murphy and Jimmy Durante; and at 3am in The Little Princess (1939) with Richard Greene and Anita Louise.
 

I Shall Serve You: The Life of St. Camillus de Lellis

EWTN At first a mercenary soldier and compulsive gambler, St. Camillus de Lellis (1550-1614), from the Abruzzo region of Naples, Italy, eventually was ordained a priest in 1582. He founded the Camillians, who nursed wounded soldiers and plague victims and continue to serve the sick today. Re-airs at 11pm Saturday. Advisory: TV-PG.
 

Nova: Chasing Pluto

PBS The New Horizons space probe, which NASA launched in January 2006, is set to reach Pluto on July 14-15 and send back the first close-up images.
 

Our Lady of Mount Carmel

EWTN On the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Redemptorist Father Pablo Straub (1932-2013) praises the Blessed Mother and expresses his love for her.
 

My Million Dollar Invention

SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL This episode, “Life and Death,” covers Alexander Graham Bell’s “Induction Balance Machine” metal detector; a 1960 battery that led to the implantable pacemaker; a factory worker’s insight that foreshadowed the 3-D printer; and Dr. Richard Gatling’s 1861 rapid-fire gun.
 

Connection Between Contraception, Abortion and Euthanasia

EWTN Janet Smith is a professor of moral theology and the Father Michael J. McGivney Chair of Life Issues at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit. Here, she exposes the anti-life mentality common to contraception, abortion and euthanasia.

Dan Engler writes from
Santa Barbara, California.