Weekly TV Picks

SUNDAY, AUG. 21

Nature: Leopards of Yala

PBS, 8 p.m.

Experts in Sri Lanka are trying to save these beautiful-but-deadly creatures.

SUNDAY, AUG. 21

The Eucharist as Life-Giving Love

Familyland TV, 10:30 p.m.

Catholic mom Kimberly Hahn, a convert, offers a heartfelt talk to parents about the Eucharist, Catholic marriage and how to raise children as good Catholics. Re-airs Monday, Aug. 22, at 1:30 p.m. and Wednesday, Aug. 24, at 10:30 a.m.

MONDAY, AUG. 22

The Journey Home

EWTN, 8 p.m., live

Tonight's guest is popular Catholic author and philosopher Dr. Ronda Chervin. In the June 26 Register, she told interviewer Joseph D'Agostino how she came “to see that the Church was the completion of Judaism.” She also urged Catholics “to pray for Jews to recognize Jesus as the Messiah and find the fullness of truth that is the Catholic faith.”

TUESDAY, AUG. 23

Ice Cream Palaces

Travel Channel, 1 p.m.

This taste-tempting show takes us on a summertime tour of fabulous ice cream emporiums around our country.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 24

Modern Marvels:

Observatories

History Channel, 7 a.m.

This show gives us a window, so to speak, into the history of astronomy from ancient times to today's Hubble Space Telescope and powerful land-based observatories. Film footage and interviews with scientists portray astronomy's greatest discoveries.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 24

Excavators

Discovery Channel, 8 p.m.

A surge in demand for iron prompted the construction of a new, giant super-shovel.

FRIDAY, AUG. 26

Inside Vatican II:

Lumen Gentium

Familyland TV, 12 midnight

This series’ 23 episodes analyze Lumen Gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, which Pope Paul VI promulgated on Nov. 21, 1964. The document cites the Bible, earlier councils and the Church Fathers and other authorities. Its topics include the mystery of the Church; the people of God; the hierarchy, especially the episcopate; the laity; and the universal call to holiness.

FRIDAY, AUG. 26

Save Our History:

George Washington's

Workshop

History Channel, 7 a.m.

Host Steve Thomas takes us a little south of Washington, D.C., on the Virginia shore of the Potomac, to visit Mount Vernon, the estate of the Father of Our Country. Experts show us his wide agricultural and scientific interests by examining his archives and artifacts and by conducting live demonstrations.

Dan Engler writes from Santa Barbara, California.