Avoiding Babylon
Avoiding Babylon was started during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. During these difficult and dark days, when most of us were isolated from family, friends, our parishes, and even the Sacraments themselves, this channel was started as a statement of standing against the tyrannical mandates that many of us were living under. Since those early days, this channel has morphed into an amazing community of friends…no…more than friends…Christian brothers and sisters…who have grown in joy and charity.
As we see it, our job here at Avoiding Babylon is to remind ourselves and those who enjoy the channel that being Catholic is a joyful and exciting experience. We seek true Catholic fraternity and eutrapelia with other Catholics who, like us, are doing their best to live out their vocation with the help of God’s Grace. Above all, we try to bring humor and joy to the craziness of this fallen world, for as Hillaire Belloc has famously said:
“Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine,
There’s always laughter and good red wine.
At least I’ve always found it so.
Benedicamus Domino!”
Avoiding Babylon
Latest Episodes
Insanity Defense On Trial (LOCALS Only Show)
A mother kills her children, the internet rushes to explain it away, and a courtroom has to decide what “insanity” actually means. We work through the Lindsay Clancy trial with a focus on the part most people miss: Massachusetts still puts key ...
"Your Father Is the Devil" — Fr. Mawdsley on Knowing Your Real Enemy
A book so controversial the author half jokes he may have to “press publish” live just to see how long it survives. We’re joined again by Father James Mawdsley to talk about Know Thy Enemy, the personal cost of writing it, and why certain quest...
Is There Demonic Influence in Our Technology?
Nuclear weapons, IVF, AI, and the postwar story we’ve all been taught are not separate conversations, they’re one big argument about who (or what) shapes human history. We start with a raw look at how a “content drought” turns into algorithmic ...
Is There Demonic Influence in Our Technology? (Full LOCALS Show)
The modern world didn’t just get “more chaotic” over time, it crossed a line, and we can feel it in our bones. We start with the small stuff that poisons your mood fast: doom-scrolling, gender-war clips, and true crime culture that turns suffer...
Why Women Defend Murderous Moms and Immodest Girlfriends
A mother kills three children and the internet immediately starts bargaining with reality. We dig into the Lindsay Clancy trial, the postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis claims surrounding it, and the unnerving trend of people avoidin...
Fan Mail
What is this new text message devilry? Happy New Year to you guys! Thanks for being (mostly—except Nick is trying to be Mr. Super Scholar) just real, down-to-earth guys trying to figure out this whole modern Catholic boondoggle. Love y’all.
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