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Living Catholic with Father Don Wolf

Archdiocese of Oklahoma City

Father Don Wolf, a priest of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, offers a Catholic perspective on the issues confronting each person today.

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Counting The Cost: A World Shaped by Abortion |...

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2026/01/18

What happens to a country when the value of life is negotiated instead of protected? In this episode, we take a hard, honest look at how abortion has reshaped law, culture, and conscience from Roe to Dobbs, and why the arguments on both sides have stayed fixed even as methods and numbers shift. With clinics declining and chemical abortions rising, the data reveal a sobering reality: legality moves, but the practice persists, and the ripple effects stretch across families, faith, and the fabri...

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Corruption, Truth and Hope | January 11, 2026

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2026/01/11

In this episode, we trace how Scripture, history, and lived experience confront modern corruption, then map a practical path toward honesty built on guardrails, subsidiarity, and courage. The call is clear: design for integrity, tell the truth out loud, and hold hope steady in Christ. • warnings in the Bible against bribes and favoritism • original sin as a reason for guardrails and audits • the parish audit story and structural reform • history’s long record of graft shaping outcomes • subs...

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Three Kings Walk Into Bethlehem (Not a Joke Setup) |...

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2026/01/04

In this episode, we trace Christmas beyond the manger to Epiphany, where the Magi reveal a Messiah meant for every nation and not just one people. From creation’s scope to early Church debates, we show why inclusion is baked into the Gospel and how to watch for God in nature and culture. • Epiphany as culmination of Christmas • Gift giving rooted in the Magi’s homage • Creation narratives showing God for all nations • Prophetic vision of peoples streaming to God • Ten...

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An American Walks Into The Papacy | December 28, 2025

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2025/12/28

The year handed us a headline few expected: an American chosen as Pope. From the first moments of white smoke and Latin announcements to the weight of global expectations, we explore what this means for a church that must listen beyond its borders. I share why international experience matters in a leader who represents the message of Jesus to the world, and how the name Leo XIV quietly nods to the legacy of Catholic social teaching and the dignity of work. ************ Father Don Wolf is a p...

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An Out of This World Christmas Story | December 21, 2025

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2025/12/21

What does Christmas look like when you’re 15 million miles from home with no space for gifts and no time for tinsel? ************ Father Don Wolf is a priest of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City. Living Catholic also broadcasts on Oklahoma Catholic Radio several times per week, with new episodes airing every Sunday.

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John The Baptist was not a Side Character in the...

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2025/12/14

A forgotten herald stands at the water’s edge, and his voice still changes how we hear the Gospel. In this episode, we revisit John the Baptist not as a narrative warm-up but as a towering witness whose movement endured for centuries, whose courage confronted power, and whose finger pointed a generation to the Lamb of God. Along the way, we wrestle with why modern preaching sidelined him, how an overreliance on slogans and proofs shrank our imagination, and why a sacramental way of seeing hel...

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Our Lady of Guadalupe Still Calls Us to Build the...

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2025/12/07

A cloak without brushstrokes. Roses blooming out of season. A bishop on the brink of giving up. In this episode, we follow the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe from the hill of Tepeyac into the charged world of 16th‑century New Spain, where evangelization faltered, questions about human dignity raged, and a simple message—build the church—carried a meaning far larger than a construction site. Along the way, we examine why the tilma’s image refuses easy explanations, what the Church actually tea...

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Revelation, Charity, and the Work of Waiting |...

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2025/11/30

Advent begins where few expect it: not with soft lights and carols, but with an unveiling. In this episode, we open the new liturgical year by facing the word apocalypse in its original sense—revelation—and asking what it discloses about our time, our communities, and our hearts. From a journalist who tried to expose church hypocrisy and instead found ordinary generosity, to a parish in Soweto that read Revelation while apartheid pressed hard on their doors, we trace how faith shows up when t...

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From Cross to Crown: Christ is King | November 23, 2025

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2025/11/22

Start with the paradox that changes everything: the same Jesus who hangs condemned on a cross is the one who reigns as King of the universe. In this episode, Monsignor Wolf traces how that tension—cross and crown—does not dilute faith but sharpens it, turning the liturgical year into a slow, bright unveiling of love that actually orders a chaotic world. From Advent’s apocalyptic readings to the steady rhythm of Sunday Mass, he connects the dots toward a single revelation: Jesus is all in all....

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Loud Cars Bother Me Now | November 16, 2025

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2025/11/15

In this episode, Monsignor Wolf reflects on his 70th birthday and uses small annoyances to open a larger reflection on civility, hidden suffering, and the danger of loose talk about civil war. History, media literacy, and prayer guide us toward mercy, truth, and peace, with a closing poem on the gifts of age. • loud noise and fraying civility as signals of respect • hats in church as a cultural practice of reverence • grades and metrics failing to measure real life • living with an unseen di...

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Armistice and Aftermath | November 9, 2025

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2025/11/09

A minute of silence on November 11, 1918 did not end the world’s turmoil—it exposed it. In this episode, Monsignor Wolf opens with the Armistice and follow the shockwaves: empires dissolving, borders reshaped in Central Europe and the Middle East, and a fragile “peace” that many leaders privately admitted would last only twenty years. From Austria-Hungary’s collapse to the reassembling of the Ottoman lands, from Germany’s chaotic republic to Japan’s strategic rise, the map changed faster than...

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Forgiveness Burns Brightest At Heaven’s Gate |...

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2025/11/02

In this episode, Monsignor Don Wolf explores All Souls Day through the lens of communion across time and the hope of purgatory as purifying love. A hospital story, Scripture, and the saints help illustrate why praying for the dead is not empty sentiment but solidarity in Christ. • one Church that includes the living and the dead • universality of grace from Adam to the apostles and to us • communion with saints and ordinary faithful across centuries • why prayer for the dead matters and how ...

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Saints, Halloween, and the Joy of Mocking Evil |...

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2025/10/26

In this episode, Monsignor Wolf pushes past the noise around Halloween and returns to its heart: All Hallows’ Eve as preparation for All Saints. He explores the communion of saints, how their lives shape ours, and how holiness takes root in real times and places. • reclaiming Halloween as the vigil of All Saints • communion with the saints as living friendship • Stephen’s witness and Paul’s awakening in Acts • saints formed by history, office and duty • Miguel Pro, Thomas More and Oscar Rome...

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The Scourge of Original Sin | October 19, 2025

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2025/10/19

In this episode, Monsignor Wolf explores why original sin remains a clear, useful lens for understanding human rivalry and broken freedom, and how grace in Christ offers a real path of rescue. Along the way, he tests rival answers, from detachment to law to social engineering, and find their limits. • asking better questions in faith as in science • defining original sin as foundational disorder • Genesis reframed through mimetic desire • the teddy bear image and rivalrous wanting • freedom’...

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Grief, Brotherhood, and the Priest’s Call at the Edge...

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2025/10/12

In this episode, we mourn two Oklahoma priests and reckon with what brotherhood, death, and the promise of resurrection demand of our vocation. We reflect on last rites, family grief, priestly identity, and the quiet discipline of presence at the edge of life. • priestly life lived near death and dying • last rites as reconciliation, anointing, commendation • stories of peaceful deaths and hard departures • families navigating acceptance, anger and fear • presence over performance in pastora...

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How many will be saved? | October 5, 2025

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2025/10/05

A single question can bend the arc of a life: Will many be saved—or only a few? In this episode, Msgr. Wolf explores how generations shifted from “heaven is promised but not presumed” to “heaven is assumed if we’re decent,” and why both comfort and terror can miss the heart of grace. We unpack the old struggle over predestination and assurance, and how Sunday worship takes shape from those assumptions: is the goal a moving experience that signals chosenness, or the steady sacramental life tha...

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Forgive Us Our Trespasses | September 28, 2025

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2025/09/28

In this episode Father Wolf reflects on Erica Kirk's public forgiveness of her husband's murderer and explores how this fundamental Christian teaching continues to surprise our culture despite being central to our faith. We examine why such a basic element of Christianity stunned observers and what it reveals about our disconnect between religious teaching and practice. • The memorial rally for Charlie Kirk drew 60,000 people and approximately 100 million streaming views • Erica Kirk's unexp...

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24:51

The Ordinary Face of Evil: How Regular People Commit...

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2025/09/21

In this episode Father Wolf examines recent high-profile killings and their spiritual implications, providing historical context and theological insight into how Christians should respond to cultural violence. He explores how ordinary people can be drawn to commit horrific acts and how faith offers protection against the pervasive evil of our time. • Recent school shootings and assassinations capture headlines because they capture our interests and fears • Historical perspective shows simila...

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Weaving Beliefs: Navigating Faith and Cultural...

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2025/08/31

In this episode, Father Wolf takes us on a fascinating journey through the missionary work of Oklahoma priests in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala, revealing profound lessons about faith, culture, and effective evangelization. The story begins with a penetrating question about how missionaries addressed the syncretistic blend of Catholic and Mayan beliefs among the Tzʼutujil people. This launches an exploration of Guatemala's complicated religious history, where post-independence anti-clerical po...

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The Vampire's Emptiness: When Forever Isn't Enough |...

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2025/08/24

In this episode, Father Wolf explores Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire" to uncover spiritual truths about life's meaning and the emptiness of immortality without God. Through this unexpected vacation read, he examines how even horror literature reveals our deepest spiritual hungers and the universal quest for salvation. • Reading Anne Rice's vampire novel after her conversion memoir "Called Out of Darkness" • Rice's brief return to Catholicism followed by her departure from the faith ...

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