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
Wicked, Maleficent, and Lindsay Clancy: Satan's War on the Christian Conscience
A jury room can’t fix a culture, but it can expose one. We wrestle with the Lindsay Clancy trial as closing arguments land and the internet picks its side, and we ask the uncomfortable question people keep dodging: what happens when “empathy” b...
Wicked, Maleficent, and Lindsay Clancy: Satan's War on the Christian Conscience (Full LOCALS Show)
A mother kills her children, the courtroom nears a verdict, and the internet immediately starts rewriting the story. We walk through the Lindsay Clancy trial’s closing arguments, why the prosecution’s final framing matters, and how a single pro...
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 ...
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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