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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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Praying Through The Fog Of War | April 12, 2026

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2026/04/10

In this episode, we start with Iran in the headlines and then pull the camera back to something smaller and more personal: an Iranian student in an Oklahoma high school, far from home, carrying a life we barely understood. That memory becomes a challenge to how we talk about conflict, national security, and “winning” while ordinary families on every side try to survive the day. From there, we face the fog of war and the uncomfortable truth that certainty often outpaces knowledge. Even ...

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What if There is More Than Death? | April 5, 2026

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2026/04/05

Before sunrise, a group of women walks through a city controlled by Roman power, carrying spices and cloth for a burial they expect will be painful and final. They’re not looking for a miracle. They’re looking for a body. That simple, human mission becomes the doorway to one of the most disruptive claims in Christian faith: the tomb is open, the grave is empty, and the world is no longer limited by death. In this episode, we reflect on how expectation shapes everything we do, how grief foll...

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Jerusalem On Edge As Jesus Arrives | March 29, 2026

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2026/03/28

Jerusalem is packed for Passover, and it feels like the whole city is holding its breath. In this episode, we step into that tension on Palm Sunday, when Roman occupation, local religious leadership, and street-level resentment all collide with one name on everyone’s tongue: Jesus. From the first minutes, we follow the rising pressure of a place where whispers can become a revolt, and where every public gesture gets read as a political signal. We talk through why Jesus draws crowds so ...

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Shifting Prayer Paradigms | March 22, 2026

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2026/03/23

Prayer is suddenly everywhere online, from polished apps to celebrity invitations to “join us” for a few minutes a day. Are we witnessing a genuine renewal of prayer, or are we simply more aware of it because the internet puts constant spiritual marketing in our pocket? If we can learn to approach God together, maybe we can begin to hunger for the unity Christ desires, and avoid the shallow cycle of spiritual excitement that fades when the “sheen wears off.” ************ Father Don Wolf is ...

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Battlefield Headlines | March 15, 2026

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2026/03/14

Missiles fly, predictions spread, and suddenly “World War III” becomes a casual phrase on the lips of people who will never pay the real cost. In this episode, let's take a sober, Catholic look at the war talk surrounding current military conflict with Iran, and why reckless language can do more than describe reality. Words can pressure leaders, inflame public emotion, and make escalation feel normal. If wars are easier to begin than to end, then the way we speak at the beginning matters more...

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What if You Didn’t Know You Were Alive? | March 8, 2026

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2026/03/07

What if the real plot twist isn’t learning you’re dead—it’s discovering you’re already alive? In this episode, I start with the movies we all know, from Ghost and The Sixth Sense to Shaun of the Dead, and then flip the lens to reveal a deeper current running through ancient myths, modern history, and the Gospels. Instead of a world where choice manufactures meaning, we enter a world where meaning arrives first, solid and surprising, and our choices learn to catch up. I also share about a viv...

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We Went Outside to Pray and Accidentally Learned...

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2026/02/28

What if the loudest place in town is the best place to learn how to pray? In this episode we will talk about the Living Stations of the Cross at the Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine in Oklahoma City—a crowd shouting, a cross moving, voices cracking—and follow that energy into a bigger question: how does faith change when it steps outside and faces the street? From there, we trace a living thread through Church history, where stalls along a Roman road became sanctuaries, prayer was spoken for all...

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From "Occupied Territory" to Freedom In Christ |...

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2026/02/21

In this episode, we rethink sin not as a list of wrongs but as a power that shapes habits, culture and the heart, and we frame Lent as training in freedom through grace. Stories, theology and poetry converge to show how confession, prayer and the sacraments move us from bondage to hope. • why images of sin as simple stains fall short • Lent as a reset for deeper truth and renewal • Feynman’s maps and how pictures both help and hinder • the slow schooling of compromise and conscience • sin as...

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Lent, Forgiveness, and the Gift We Keep Forgetting to...

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2026/02/06

Forgiveness can feel simple when we’re kids and impossibly heavy when life grows complicated. We open the door to the confessional and suddenly see the darkness of our own uncertainty staring back. In this conversation, we walk from childhood ritual to adult conversion, exploring why confession can become harder over time and how the sacrament still offers a direct encounter with Christ’s mercy—clear, personal, and spoken into our actual lives. We talk about the hidden cost of carrying a chi...

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When Forgiveness Becomes Medicine | February 1, 2026

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2026/02/01

What if healing isn’t a narrow medical fix but a return to wholeness that touches body, soul, and community? We sit down to rethink the Anointing of the Sick as a living encounter with Christ’s presence—one that forgives, restores, and draws scattered lives back into order. Anchored in James 5 and the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ healing, we explore how the Church keeps that same hope alive at hospital beds, in family circles, and in moments when courage feels thin. We walk through the misconce...

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Live Not By Lies, Today | January 25, 2026

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2026/01/25

What happens when the culture that once supported everyday faith turns indifferent—or even hostile—to belief? We take an unflinching look at that question and map a path forward that blends sturdy community with courageous truth-telling. Drawing on Rod Dreher’s ideas, we explore how the Benedict Option can look beyond cloistered walls: neighborhood prayer groups, classical academies that form souls, guilds that dignify work, and friendships that keep hope alive when headlines don’t. This isn’...

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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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