EPISODE · Oct 19, 2025 · 24 MIN
The Scourge of Original Sin | October 19, 2025
from Living Catholic with Father Don Wolf · host Archdiocese of Oklahoma City
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 hopeTo learn more, visit okr.org************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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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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