Weekly TV Picks

SUNDAY, SEPT. 10

After 9/11:

Rebuilding Lives

Discovery Channel, 11 p.m.

This documentary focuses on people’s personal struggles in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Advisory: Intense subject matter.

MONDAY, SEPT. 11

Rosary in Remembrance of Sept. 11, 2001

EWTN, 9 a.m., 11:30 a.m.

All the networks and cable channels will air 9/11 special programs today, the fifth anniversary of the attacks. In a most appropriate commemoration, the Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word pray the Rosary for the victims and their families.

MONDAY, SEPT. 11

Lost Worlds:

Braveheart’s Scotland

History Channel, 9 p.m.

His fellow Scots called William Wallace (ca. 1276-1305) “Braveheart” for his heroic resistance to English King Edward I’s oppression. “I could not be a traitor to Edward, for I was never his subject,” Wallace said before his execution. Recent archaeological finds help verify much that is said about him in song and story. Advisory: TV-PG.

MON.-THU., SEPT. 11-14

I Believe: The Heart of the Catholic Church

EWTN, 3 a.m., 6:30 p.m.

Theologian, Scripture expert and evangelizer Marcellino D’Ambrosio’s topics in these four daily installments are the Creed, God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 12

P.O.V.: The Boys of Baraka

PBS, 10 p.m.

Baraka means “blessing” in Swahili, and blessings are what out-of-control boys from inner-city Baltimore encounter at the Baraka School in rural Kenya, as the structuredness there helps them overcome problems rooted in fractured family life and other ills.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 13

EWTN Live

EWTN, 8 p.m.

Tonight’s guests, Father Richard Hogan and Linda Kracht of the Cincinnati-based Couple to Couple League, explain their group’s mission of teaching Natural Family Planning to married and engaged couples and of training NFP instructors and counselors.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 13

Live from Lincoln Center

PBS, 8 p.m.

In this two-hour concert featuring pianists Emanuel Ax and Yefim Bronfman, the New York Philharmonic, under music director Loren Maazel, begins its 2006-2007 season with Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos in E-flat and Beethoven’s Egmont overture and Symphony No. 3, Eroica.

FRI.-SAT., SEPT. 15-16

Pawsuuup!

Familyland TV

At 3:30 p.m. Friday and 7 a.m. Saturday, the Raggs Kid’s Club Band doggie puppets have fun putting on a concert and enjoying the sights in New York City.

Dan Engler writes from

Santa Barbara, California.

Palestinian Christians celebrate Easter Sunday Mass at Holy Family Church in Gaza City on March 31, amid the ongoing battles Israel and the Hamas militant group.

People Explain ‘Why I Go to Mass’

‘Why go to Mass on Sundays? It is not enough to answer that it is a precept of the Church. … We Christians need to participate in Sunday Mass because only with the grace of Jesus, with his living presence in us and among us, can we put into practice his commandment, and thus be his credible witnesses.’ —Pope Francis