Living Catholic with Monsignor Don Wolf
Monsignor Don Wolf, a priest of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, offers a Catholic perspective on the issues confronting each person today.
Episodes
168 episodes
"The Church Exists To Make Us Holy" | September 20, 32026
Holiness is not a personality type for a few intense people. It is what human beings are made for, and it is the reason the Church exists at all. In this episode, Monsignor Wolf explores the second of the four marks of the Church: Holy....
"One Church in a Sea of 20,000!" | September 13, 2026
Three churches on the same intersection can feel normal in modern America, but it should also make us pause. If Jesus is Lord with one Gospel, what does it mean when Christianity looks like a strip mall of options? In this episode, ...
"The Spirit of the 60s and Vatican II" | September 6, 2026
In this episode, Monsignor Wolf wrestles with the question: what did the 1960s do to us, and what do we do with that legacy now?A retired bishop’s first novel, Behind Closed Doors by Francis Anthony Quinn, becomes a small but revealing ...
"The Day A Trombone Hit Sunday Mass" | August 30, 2026
The hottest Catholic arguments love big labels: Latin Mass, Vatican II, governance, schism. But I’ve been wondering something simpler and harder to tweet about: what did those years actually feel like for regular people sitting in the pews and ...
"Your Ballot is a Message" | August 23, 2026
In this episode, we take a hard look at why self-government demands more from us than showing up on election day and then tuning out. We connect Catholic faith to civic responsibility, media wisdom, and the kind of moral realism that helps us v...
My Thoughts on the Vice President's New Book, "Communion" | August 16, 2026
I just finished J.D. Vance’s “Communion: My Return to Faith,” and what stays with us is not a campaign story but a spiritual one: a man formed by instability, wounded family life, and the wider ache of Middle America after deindustrialization a...
"Putting Grandma Down is not Compassion" | August 9, 2026
A society can say it wants a “good death” and still lose its grip on what care really means. A disturbing headline from the Netherlands: a 12-year-old was euthanized, a new boundary crossed in a country that helped pioneer modern euthanasia pol...
"Are we in a cult?" | August 2, 2026
“Promote the cult of Blessed Stanley Rother.” When the Vatican sent that instruction after Blessed Stanley's beatification, it sounded like a technical line from Rome, but it sparked something concrete here in Oklahoma: his remains were moved s...
"Moonlight Martyrdom" | July 26, 2026
Three men move through a Guatemalan rectory in the middle of the night, and the pastor they are hunting has already made his choice. In this episode, we walk step by step through the martyrdom of Blessed Stanley Rother, the Oklahoma-born missio...
"What if Holiness is a Friendship You Accept?" | July 19, 2026
A martyr’s anniversary is not just a date on a calendar, it is a spiritual mirror. As we approach the 45th anniversary of Blessed Stanley Rother’s martyrdom, we slow down and ask what his witness still does to the Church today, from Oklahoma to...
Movie Magic (Miracles) | July 12, 2026
Canonization can sound mysterious, but the heart of it is simple: the Church recognizes what God has already done in a life of real, visible holiness. In this episode, I talk about Blessed Stanley Rother and why the work at the Shrine of Blesse...
Why are more people going to Confession? | July 5, 2026
Confession lines used to be short enough that a priest could sit for an hour and hear only a handful of people. Now we’re seeing the opposite, and it’s not just in one parish or one generation. In this episode, I share what I’ve watched change ...
"Something is Moving in the Church and We Should Pay Attention" | June 28, 2026
Good news can feel almost suspicious when you have lived through decades of grim headlines about the Church. We are seeing something different right now: record numbers of adult converts at Easter, packed Rite of Election liturgies here in Okla...
"D-Day Reminds Us That Victory Has a Price" | June 7, 2026
June 6, 1944 is a date most of us can picture without opening a book, but why does Normandy carry so much weight when World War II included so many other invasions, fronts, and losses? In this episode, I start with the history we think we know,...
"A Priest Looks at 45" | May 31, 2026
A life can turn on a single promise, and you rarely understand it on the day you make it. Monsignor Don Wolf looks back to 1981, when he was ordained a Catholic priest at Our Lady’s Cathedral in Oklahoma City, then walks forward through 45 year...
"Memorial Day and the Work of Remembering" | May 24, 2026
Memorial Day can feel like a switch flips and suddenly it’s summer, but we don’t want the holiday to become just another weekend that disappears into the blur. In this episode, we talk about the pace of time and the quiet danger of sleepwalking...
"The Church Is The Third Testament" | May 17, 2026
Someone stands up in a pulpit and says the quiet part out loud: parts of the Bible are “problematic,” so maybe we should rip those pages out and replace them with a brand-new “Third Testament.” The backlash makes sense, but we don’t want to sto...
Can we update the Bible? Should we?... | May 10, 2026
Someone says the quiet part out loud: what if we just rip out the Bible passages that bother us? A pastor in Oakland suggests removing “problem” pages and even adding a third testament, and the internet predictably erupts. We slow the whole thi...
DON'T SKIP THE FUNERAL...They're Part of Being Human | May 3, 2026
Funerals are quietly disappearing, and I do not think we realize what we are trading away. More and more, families tell us there will be no services at all, or we learn someone has already been buried with no prayer, no gathering, no public mou...
What if Prayer Fails Because we Fear our own Hearts? | April 26, 2026
Prayer can feel like it should be simple, but many of us quietly experience it as awkward, distracting, or even discouraging. In this episode, we tackle the question: why is prayer so hard? We reflect on how naturally human beings ...
The Disciples Never Expected the Resurrection | April 19, 2026
Nobody walks to the tomb expecting a new world. In this episode, that’s where we start: with the disciples’ honest assumption that Jesus is gone for good, and with the uncomfortable way that grief trains all of us to think death, defeat, and sh...
Praying Through The Fog Of War | April 12, 2026
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...
What if There is More Than Death? | April 5, 2026
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 mis...
Jerusalem On Edge As Jesus Arrives | March 29, 2026
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...