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
Stop the Synod, Save the Council? Cardinal Zen's Blind Spot
Somebody tried to get our sponsors to drop us, and it accidentally became the funniest kind of promo. We start with that sponsor-email drama, why it failed, and what it reveals about modern cancel tactics in podcasting. Then we veer into someth...
Stop the Synod, Save the Council? Cardinal Zen's Blind Spot (Full LOCALS Show)
A “virtual assistant” called Anthony on a recorded line to read the Gettysburg Address, and somehow that wasn’t even the weirdest part of the night. We start with sponsor drama and the modern “cancel the show” playbook, then detour into AI tool...
The Lesser Evil Lost — Now What for Catholics?
You can feel it after this election: the old scripts are breaking. We sit down with Stephen Cox to talk through the fallout, the fury aimed at Catholics who refuse to “just press R,” and the deeper issue underneath the internet drama. When poli...
The Lesser Evil Lost — Now What for Catholics? (Full LOCALS Show)
The election dust settles and we’re left with a brutal question: what if the “lesser of two evils” has stopped being lesser and has started shaping our consciences instead? We talk through why some Catholics chose to abstain, what that choice s...
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