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Watch ‘Liberating a Continent: John Paul II and the Fall of Soviet Communism’ on EWTN
TUESDAY, Nov. 9, 9:30am
Theodore: A Gift from God
EWTN Blessed Theodore Romzha (1911-1947), bishop of the Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Mukacheve, in Ukraine, remained loyal to the papacy in defiance of Soviet occupiers. The KGB, the Communist secret police, martyred him. TV-14.
TUESDAY, Nov. 9, 10am
Liberating a Continent: John Paul II and the Fall of Soviet Communism
EWTN Starting with Pope St. John Paul II’s visit to his native Poland in 1979, this 2018 documentary chronicles this Pope’s role in liberating the peoples of Eastern Europe and Russia from seven decades of atheistic Communist bloodshed and tyranny.
TUESDAY, Nov. 9
Lassie Trilogy
TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES Brave and beloved collie Lassie and her humans go through perils and come out on top. At 2:45pm, “Lassie Come Home” (1943); at 4:30pm, “Son of Lassie” (1945); and at 6:15pm, “Challenge to Lassie” (1949).
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10, 8pm
EWTN Live
EWTN Jesuit Father Mitch Pacwa’s guest, English author Joseph Pearce, offers examples of how studying the classics can deepen people’s Catholic faith. Encore is Thursday at 9:30am.
FRIDAY, Nov. 12, 9pm
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Pope John Missioner II
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Vatican report casts dark shadow on Pope John Paul II
A two-year, 449-page, internal Vatican investigation into sexual abuse allegations against ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick found that a number of bishops, cardinals and popes downplayed or dismissed reports that the US priest slept with seminarians.
The report said the Catholic Church's current leader, Pope Francis, had maintained that stance until receiving compelling allegations of sexual abuse from a former altar boy.
The McCarrick report is an attempt by the church to restore credibility gravely damaged by sexual abuse scandals and lack of transparency in general but also that of McCarrick and his career specifically.
Read more: Sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church
The most explosive aspects of the report relate to McCarrick's rise within the Catholic Church. Pope John Paul II, who was canonized a saint in 2014, was a supporter of the US bishop, appointing him Archbishop of Washington DC in 2000 and naming him a cardinal in 2001, despite having received numerous confirmed reports that McCarrick had slept with seminarians.
John Paul, says the report, believed McCarrick's denials rather than the findings of a Vatican investigation: "The evidence shows that Pope John Paul II personally made the