Monsignor Don Wolf

09/07/2026

Sept 7 - The poets and prophets of the Old Testament insisted that those who worship false gods will come to be like them. Whatever the false god is, those who worship will become just as this god is. Well, to be more inclusive, whatever god we worship, we will become like.

09/07/2026

Sept 6 - It appears that choosing other than God is to choose other than life, and other than children. It is a matter of fact that when you choose other than God, you also choose not to have a future. Idolatry is rough business.

09/05/2026

Sept 5 - 50 years ago, we might have been embarrassed at wondering how anyone could have been so primitive and so debased as to have offered their children up to false gods, hungry for the blood of innocents and the distribution of baby body parts around special-built altars. Now, such an outcome seems . . . somewhat familiar. All we have to do is listen to the news reports. Sacrificing children on the altars of progress and equality are in the new every day, from legislatures, hospitals, and clinics, to pharmacies, census bureaus and corporate policies.

09/05/2026

09/04/2026

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09/04/2026

Sept 4 - Just turn to the bible if you want to see the warnings about what happens when you replace worship of the One God with worship of something else. You might notice right away when reading Jeremiah; one of the warnings was based on history, not on theology. Jeremiah let his people know that, as a matter of fact, when they turned away from doing what God wanted of them they fell back into the regular practice in the Middle East from time immemorial; they sacrificed their children to the common gods who demanded blood.

09/04/2026

Sept 3 - This talk about idolatry in day and time sounds almost too odd to listen to. It’s what an overheated preacher in the Deep South might have said 60 years ago as he was complaining about the evil music of Elvis Presley or the diabolical invention of Social Security. It’s hard to make a case about idols and idol worship because so many silly things have been said about them by so many silly people. But it doesn’t make our concern about idols and the worship of them wrong.

09/02/2026

Sept 2- But we are talking about turning away from the God of the bible, the God of Jesus Christ and the God whose worship has inspired the whole of the Western World and who lies at the basis of our culture. Worship of God has stalled in our world; it is not a living part of the culture we’re in, in our day and time. And it’s becoming more obvious every day. To turn away from the One, True God is to turn toward something else. And that ‘else’ is the false gods of our day and time.

09/02/2026

Sept 1 - We can look around and see; we haven’t set gods and goddesses up on street corners and expected people to bow down before them. There aren’t temples to Apollo or Thor or Tlaloc. We’re not asking anyone to bow down or offer incense or do any of the things we’re likely to think of when we think of worshipping the gods of the pagan world. And if anyone asked us to, we’d think them silly and out of place, more than we’d think of them as someone serious about worship. Pagan deities are not on our list of threats, or attractions, in our world. When we talk about idolatry in our world in our time, we’re not talking about that.