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For the most part, EWTN TV is the station to watch this week, according to Catholic News Service’s Media Review Office. That’s where you’ll find coverage of the Mass for Life and a vespers service with the pope honoring the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul. There’s also an old melodrama about a priest-turned cardinal on Turner Classic Movies.

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Here are some of CNS’ TV highlights for the week. (complete list is available too).

“Solemn Mass for Life” — 7:30-9 a.m. EST Jan. 24 on EWTN
Eucharistic liturgy preparing for the March for Life celebrated by Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

“March for Life” — 11 a.m.-3 p.m. EST Jan. 24 on EWTN
Live and complete coverage of the 2011 March for Life in Washington. This prayerful event starts with the rally for life and leads to the march up Constitution Avenue. Features will include interviews, panel discussions and speeches from pro-life activists around the country. Students from St. Mary’s High School will be among the crowd.

“The Cardinal” (1963) — 1-4 p.m. EST Jan. 24 on Turner Classic Movies
A Sprawling melodrama based on a novel about “the ecclesiastical rise of an Irish-American priest from 1917 Boston to a 1924 post in the Vatican, who then becomes a bishop after tangling with the Ku Klux Klan in 1934 Georgia and is made a cardinal after tangling with the Nazis in 1938 Austria.” CNS said:

…the movie makes good use of the religious backgrounds and clerical roles, but the central figure is pure cardboard and his moral crises unconvincing. Stylized violence, racial epithets and such moral issues as saving the life of the infant rather than the mother in a troubled childbirth and the temptation to leave the priesthood for the love of a woman.

“Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul: Celebration of Vespers (Live)” — 5-6:30 p.m. EST Jan. 25 on EWTN
Pope Benedict XVI presides over this vespers service celebrating the feast of the conversion of St Paul the Apostle, broadcast from Rome’s Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls.