Weekly TV Picks

All times Eastern

SUNDAY, JUNE 6

Franciscan U. Presents

EWTN, 7 p.m.

Tonight's show, “Scripture Matters,” reveals Pope John Paul II's view of “the full sense” of Scripture and discusses how to understand the Bible better and to “read it from the heart of the Church.” Re-airs Tuesday, June 8, at 1 p.m. and Friday, June 11, at 3 a.m.

SUNDAY, JUNE 6

D-Day Marathon

History Channel, 11 a.m.-11 p.m.

On the 60th anniversary of D-Day, this slate of hour-long programs covers many facets of the Allied invasion of France. At 8 p.m., a new two-hour special, D-Day: The Lost Evidence, airs long-unseen footage from low-level reconnaissance flights over the beaches during the fighting.

SUNDAY, JUNE 6

D-Day: Reflections of Courage Discovery Channel, 8 p.m.

This new two-hour special portrays the invasion hour by hour through film footage, photos and interviews with D-Day veterans from both sides.

MON.-SAT., JUNE 7-12

Eucharistic Principles for the Spiritual Life

EWTN, 4:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., daily

Father Emmerich Vogt, director of the St. Jude Thaddeus Shrine in San Francisco, offers profound and practical ways to attain genuine repentance, conversion and a healthy spiritual life.

TUESDAY, JUNE 8

Wild West Tech

History Channel, 10 p.m.

The gold, silver and copper rushes in California, Nevada, Montana and Alaska in the 19th century necessitated major advances in mining equipment.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9

FDR's Secret War

History Channel, 10 a.m., 4 p.m.

Author Joseph Persico has sifted historical evidence about forceful steps by President Franklin D. Roosevelt toward Japan and Germany before U.S. entry into World War II.

THURSDAY, JUNE 10

Assisi in Silence

EWTN, 1 p.m.

This new hour-long special shows how, under secret orders from Pope Pius XII, the Diocese of Assisi, Italy, hid many Jews in monasteries and convents to save them from the Germans who occupied Italy in World War II.

FRIDAY, JUNE 11

World's Largest Aquarium

Travel Channel, 9 p.m.

Scientists brought more than 100,000 sea creatures from the world over to inhabit the new aquarium in the Science Park in Valencia, Spain.

SATURDAY, JUNE 12

Lucy Must Be Traded, Charlie Brown

ABC, 8 p.m.

You'll love the Peanuts brand of baseball in this half-hour animated special that first aired last August.

Dan Engler writes from Santa Barbara, California.