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
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 ...
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...
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