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 occupying power and infectious force
• confession as rescue and victory, not mere bookkeeping
• shared bondage and shared grace in the Church
• practical courage to begin again and recalibrate

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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.

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 child’s moral vocabulary into adult decisions, the discouragement of “same old sins,” and the slow, relational pace of real change. Along the way, we unpack the sacramental heart of confession: how “I absolve you” bridges twenty centuries and places us at the foot of the Cross, not as spectators but as people being restored. We also share practical ways to prepare well, using precise language for motives and patterns, and adopting a fearless moral inventory that names both faults and graces. Gratitude becomes part of repentance, protecting us from despair and teaching us how to cooperate with what God is already growing.

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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.

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 misconceptions that reduce anointing to “Last Rites,” tracing how Vatican II renewed the sacrament’s breadth. Along the way, we talk about the many ways healing can appear: sometimes instantaneous and astonishing; often gradual, working with medicine and the body’s resilience; and, at times, integrative, where someone learns to live whole with lasting limits like disability or addiction. We also open the door to a wider circle of grace—how anointing can reconcile families, reset priorities, and make room for mercy when fear crowds the room. And we speak plainly about death as the final healing, when the promise of resurrection reframes loss with hope.

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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.

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’t about hiding from the world; it’s about building centers of gravity where love of God and neighbor can breathe.

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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.

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 fabric of public life.

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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.

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
• subsidiarity as right-sized decision making
• culture change through truth-telling over image
• Challenger hearings as a model of plain accountability
• active resistance to corruption, not mere avoidance
• hope rooted in Christ as the anchor for reform

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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.

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 
• Tension of chosen status and universal mission 
• Natural revelation guiding the Magi by a star 
• Early Church debates on Gentile inclusion 
• Reading God’s work in science and the cosmos 
• Seekers moving while insiders hesitate 
• Call to openness, pilgrimage, and welcome

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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.

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.

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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.

What does Christmas look like when you’re 15 million miles from home with no space for gifts and no time for tinsel?

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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.

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 helps us meet Christ with our whole selves.

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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.