SUNDAY, Dec. 18, 8pm
Toy Story 2
ABC This 1999 Pixar-Disney animated comedy follows up 1995’s Toy Story with further adventures of cowboy Woody, space ranger Buzz Lightyear and their fellow toys.
THURSDAY, Dec. 22, 11pm
Modern Marvels: Christmas Tech
HISTORY This show visits Rockefeller Center, Macy’s and Fifth Avenue in New York City; a tree farm in Oregon; and a fruitcake bakery in Texas. Advisory: TV-PG.
SATURDAY, Dec. 24, 8pm
It’s a Wonderful Life
NBC Catholic director Frank Capra helmed this 1946 story of a young man (James Stewart) who contemplates suicide one Christmas Eve until, thanks to others’ prayers, an angel in disguise (Henry Travers) shows him how much good he can do in life.
SATURDAY-SUNDAY, Dec. 24-25, live
Christmas With the Holy Father
EWTN At 4pm live on Saturday (11pm Rome time), Pope Benedict XVI will celebrate Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica (two hours; re-airings at 8am and 6pm Sunday). At 6am live on Christmas Day, the Holy Father will deliver his “urbi et orbi” (to the city of Rome and the world) blessing and message (re-airing at 10pm).
SUNDAY, Dec. 25, all day
Movies for Christmas
TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES At 7:45am, The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952) movingly tells the Fatima story. At 9:30am, Charlton Heston stars in the 1959 epic Ben-Hur. At 1:30pm, Max von Sydow portrays Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). At 8pm, Going My Way (1944), with Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald, has one of the most touching Christmas scenes ever.
THURSDAY, Dec. 29, 3am, 6:30pm
The King in Our Midst
EWTN Charles Molineaux surveys Eucharistic adoration in the Archdiocese of Atlanta and around the country.
SATURDAY, Dec. 31, noon, live
Vespers of Thanksgiving 2011
EWTN On the eve of the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God, Pope Benedict XVI will preside at first vespers and Te Deum in thanksgiving for the past year. 90 minutes.
SATURDAY, Dec. 31, 8pm
Live From Lincoln Center: Bernstein and Gershwin
PBS In this New Year’s Eve salute to composers Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin, Jean-Yves Thibaudet will be at the piano as Alan Gilbert conducts the New York Philharmonic.
Dan Engler writes from Santa Barbara, California.
Comments
Post a Comment
Post a Comment
By submitting this form, you give The National Catholic Register permission to publish this comment. Comments will be published at our discretion, and may be edited for clarity and length. For best formatting, please limit your response to one paragraph and don't hit "enter" to force line breaks.
The time period for commenting on this article has expired.