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’s gift and how desire traps us
• limits of law, detachment, and optimism
• critique of denial and utopian fixes
• Christ reorders desire and heals freedom
• slow growth in grace, steady 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.