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
Did Jimmy Akin Just Defend the Golden Calf?
A couple hundred bucks lost in Atlantic City turns into a surprisingly honest gut check: why do some temptations feel instantly disgusting, while others slowly become normal? From that cold open, we move into two listener stories that hit the o...
Did Jimmy Akin Just Defend the Golden Calf? (Full LOCALS Show)
Losing a couple hundred bucks in Atlantic City shouldn’t feel like the end of the world, but it does if you actually respect what work costs and what “easy money” does to your head. That story kicks off a night where we move from personal accou...
60 Years of Nostra Aetate, Adderall, and Novus Ordo Mystics
A single phrase can light the fuse on half the Catholic internet, and we’re watching it happen again. We start with the behind-the-scenes fallout in Catholic media as friendships fracture, platforms rebrand, and old “trad movement” alliances lo...
60 Years of Nostra Aetate, Adderall, and Novus Ordo Mystics (Full LOCALS Show)
Catholic internet “drama” is rarely just gossip, and we prove it tonight. We start with the blowup around a Vatican note commemorating Nostra Aetate and why that document still detonates arguments about interreligious dialogue, mission, and wha...
Elliott Hulse: With Age Comes Wisdom – What I Wish I Knew in My 20s and 30s
Fear doesn’t always feel like fear. Sometimes it shows up as “being responsible,” “being prepared,” or “staying in control.” We sit down with Elliot Hulse to talk about the moment that illusion breaks, and what happens when God starts asking fo...
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