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
She Survived Her Execution: Christa Pike & The Death Penalty Debate
A lethal injection that allegedly didn’t do its one job sets the tone for a wild conversation: witness accounts of strange sounds in the chamber, headlines about an all-women execution team, and the feeling that the public is being handed a sto...
She Survived Her Execution: Christa Pike & The Death Penalty Debate (Full LOCALS Show)
A lethal injection is sold as the clean, modern face of capital punishment, right up until it doesn’t work. We react to a botched execution report that sounds chaotic from the first moments, then pull on the thread it exposes: how “sanitized” p...
The Wages of Sin: How Sin Destroyed Caleb Flynn's Life
A married pastor. A 20-year-old singer on the worship team. A secret relationship that stops being “just an affair” and turns into something darker, uglier, and catastrophically permanent. We break down how this case unfolds, why the text messa...
The Wages of Sin: How Sin Destroyed Caleb Flynn's Life (Full LOCALS Show)
A clean conscience doesn’t collapse overnight, it erodes one rationalization at a time. We start with a case that still feels unreal: a pastor with a public platform, a secret relationship with a younger worship singer, and a trail of messages ...
Jeremy Boreing Is Wrong About Integralism and the American Founding
America doesn’t have a “neutral” public square, it has a creed it rarely names. We take on the rising debate over Catholic integralism by reacting to Jeremy Boreing’s interview with a Catholic academic and then pulling the thread all the way ba...
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