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
What Really Happened on 9/11? 25 Years Later We Examine The Evidence
The world before September 11 felt slower, smaller, and oddly harder to explain to anyone who didn’t live it. We’re not just talking about flip phones and dial-up, but the way information moved, the way rumors spread, and the way a single day c...
What Really Happened on 9/11? 25 Years Later We Examine The Evidence (Full LOCALS Show)
A single morning can freeze in your memory so sharply that you can still smell the air years later. We start by walking back through 9/11 as people who lived in and around New York, from the scramble to reach loved ones when cell service collap...
A Lawyer Breaks Down the Lone Holdout in the Lindsay Clancy Trial
One juror. One note to the judge. One phrase that can blow up weeks of testimony: “refusing to follow the instructions.” We bring on our longtime friend Mark, a working attorney who lives in the world of jury trials, to help us sort out what’s ...
The FBI's SHOCKING Allegations Against Traditional Catholics
A hung jury sounds like a procedural hiccup until you ask what it exposes about the whole system. We start with the Lindsay Clancy hung jury and the obvious elephant in the room: when a case is drenched in TikTok clips, podcast commentary, and ...
The FBI's SHOCKING Allegations Against Traditional Catholics (Full LOCALS Show)
A hung jury is supposed to feel like procedural limbo, but we can’t shake the sense that it’s also a cultural verdict. We start with the Lindsay Clancy case and talk through why a non-sequestered jury in a high-profile trial is basically asked ...
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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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