SUNDAY, Aug. 10
Father James E. Coyle
EWTN At 10:30 a.m., Father James E. Coyle: Life and Legacy documents the life of Father Coyle (1873-1921), whom a Ku Klux Klansman murdered. TV-PG. At 11 a.m., in Cathedrals Across America, Bishop Steven Raica of Birmingham, Alabama, will celebrate the annual Father James Coyle Memorial Mass. (Re-airs 11:30 p.m.)
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 13, 1 p.m., live
Little League Baseball World Series
ESPN, ABC, ESPN 2 Games for regional titles begin today on ESPN in this worldwide competition that concludes in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 23-24, with the International and U.S. Championship Games Saturday on ABC (12:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., respectively), and the 3rd-Place Game Sunday on ESPN2 at 10 a.m. and the Championship Game on ABC at 3 p.m.
THURSDAY-FRIDAY, Aug. 14-15, live
Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
EWTN At 10:30 p.m. Thursday is the Candlelight Procession for the Feast at the Shrine in Lourdes, France. At 4 a.m. Friday is the International Mass on the Feast of the Assumption in Lourdes. (Re-airs 3 p.m.) At 8 a.m. is the Solemn Mass of the Assumption from the EWTN Chapel in Irondale, Alabama. (Re-airs midnight.) At noon is the Solemn Mass of the Assumption in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.
SUNDAY, Aug. 16, 8 p.m.
Hope: Our Lady of Knock
EWTN This EWTN original docudrama re-creates the night of Aug. 21, 1879, in tiny Knock, County Mayo, Ireland, when Our Lady, St. Joseph, St. John and the Lamb of God paid a silent visit of solace to the Irish people in a time of hunger, disease and oppression. TV-PG.
SUNDAY, Aug. 17, 11 a.m.
The Engineering That Built the World
HISTORY This episode, “Liberty Rising,” chronicles the design and construction of the Statue of Liberty under the Frenchmen Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and Gustave Eiffel.
SUNDAY, Aug. 17, 10 p.m.
The Song of Bernadette
TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES Jennifer Jones stars as St. Bernadette in this 1945 adaptation of Franz Werfel’s 1941 novel. Charles Bickford and Vincent Price also star.
WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY, Aug. 20-22, 5:30 p.m., 2:30 a.m.
Alive in Christ: The Martyrs of the Church
EWTN This new docudrama series from Slovenia’s Studio Siposh employs dramatizations and commentary from priests and other scholars to picture early martyrs and the love that impelled them to sacrifice their lives for Christ and the Church. TV-14.
Upcoming
MONDAY, Aug. 24, 8 p.m.
The Journey Home
EWTN JonMarc Grodi’s guest, Father Michael Nixon of the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee, describes his journey from being born into a Hare Krishna family, to a family conversion to Catholicism, and then to his eventual following of Jesus’ call to the priesthood. (Re-airs 1 a.m.)
