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!”
Episodes
552 episodes
Possessed Man Tries to Desecrate Tabernacle
Two timelines. Dozens of videos. One uncomfortable pattern: our feeds are training us to fight. We set out to play a simple game—“Whose feed is it?”—and ended up mapping how algorithms steer attention toward outrage, race-bait clips, and cultur...
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Possessed Man Tries to Desecrate Tabernacle (Full LOCALS Version)
Ever look at your feed and feel like someone’s trying to make you hate your neighbor? We put that to the test with a live “algorithm roulette,” guessing whose timeline each clip came from and asking why so much of it pushes race-bait thefts, EB...
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Matt Fradd Signs with the Daily Wire as Nick Fuentes Splits the Catholic Right
A Catholic podcast just got bought—and the tremor is bigger than one show. We open the hood on what happens when a platform promises reach and relief: fewer invoices, more producers, cleaner schedules. But where do the lines get drawn? We walk ...
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Matt Fradd Signs with the Daily Wire as Nick Fuentes Splits the Catholic Right (Full LOCALS Version)
A headline Catholic podcast just signed with a major conservative network, and the reaction says more about the state of Catholic media than any press release could. We talk frankly about what “creative control” means when brand risk sets the p...
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When Catholic Tradition Collides With Globalist Powers w/ Fr Mawdsley
The feed wants your anger, your attention, and your time. We want your freedom. This conversation pulls on three threads that are fraying daily life: algorithmic outrage that keeps us at war with each other, border and immigration policies that...
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Cardinal Burke Makes Strange Claim About AI Videos of Himself
A fake video goes viral, a holiday explodes across timelines, and suddenly everyone’s arguing about culture, borders, and the Church. We dig into how AI hoaxes and algorithmic rage bait are reshaping the conversation around faith and public lif...
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Cardinal Burke Makes Strange Claim About AI Videos of Himself (Full LOCALS Version)
What happens when AI fakery, cultural flashpoints, and a wobbling Church all collide in the same news cycle? We dive straight into a fabricated video pinned to a prominent church figure and unpack how “AI slop” channels weaponize controversy fo...
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Why This Ex‑Protestant Pastor Came Home to the Catholic Church...and Brought 17 People With Him!
A shaky ad read and some friendly ribbing give way to a rare, candid conversion story: a Reformed pastor worn thin by 2020, family burdens, and Sunday dread begins asking God for an exit ramp he can’t yet name. An old friend—now Catholic—offers...
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The American Bishops’ Betrayal of the Catholic Faithful (Full LOCALS Version)
A memo lands. A homily stings. And suddenly, families who built their weeks around the Latin Mass are making maps—Who’s driving where? Which chapel? How long can this hold? We walk through a week that felt like a year: the ICE facility Eucharis...
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The American Bishops’ Betrayal of the Catholic Faithful
A microphone squeal, a sarcastic wine ad, and then the floor drops out. We go from laughs to the fault lines running through Catholic life right now: a made-for-camera stunt at an ICE facility framed as “Eucharist denied,” diocesan letters push...
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The Pope's New Document EXPOSES an Out-of-Touch Church
Warning: Some F-Bombs were dropped in this sectionStart with a careful read of the room: families are stretched thin, culture is noisy, and the heart still aches for God. We sat down and opened a fresh Church document on charity and the ...
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Nick Fuentes and Dave Smith REVEAL the Recent Shift in Cultural Discourse
Forget the safe take. We go straight at the knot that ties American power, Israeli policy, media gatekeeping, and the Catholic conscience—and why so many big voices choose silence when the stakes are highest. The conversation contrasts a clean ...
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The Most Important Naval Battle You’ve Never Heard Of
A calendar date can feel like a footnote—until you realize it’s a battle cry. October 7 isn’t just ink on the liturgical page; it’s the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, born from the battle of Lepanto, when a divided Europe found the courage to...
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The Most Important Naval Battle You’ve Never Heard Of (Full LOCALS Version)
A feast day tied to cannon fire says something bold about how we remember. We’re diving into the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary by walking straight through the Battle of Lepanto—where oared galleys crashed, matchlocks hesitated, and a Pope ask...
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When the unthinkable happens, do you have someone who has your back?
The cavalry isn’t coming—and that’s not a doomsday slogan, it’s the lived reality in towns cutting police hours and cities where 911 stalls. We take that uncomfortable truth and turn it into a plan: how to build a small, Catholic mutual assista...
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How Fatherhood Changed My Life (and Saved My Soul)
The fights are loud; the fixes are quiet. We open with a hard look at how Catholics talk about the Pope—prudence vs. fear, why “seamless garment” rhetoric detonates in trad circles, and what we learned from mistakes under Francis. Then the conv...
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The Bizarre Civil War Splitting the Catholic Church (Full LOCALS Version)
A handful of words and a few seconds of video shouldn’t be able to shake trust—yet here we are. We unpack why a brief comment on the death penalty and a highly produced blessing moment set off a firestorm across Catholic Twitter, YouTube, and p...
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The Bizarre Civil War Splitting the Catholic Church
A single viral moment can do what a shelf of encyclicals can’t—and that’s exactly what we unpack. A papal quip about the death penalty, a glossy “ice blessing” clip, and days of Twitter crossfire reopened old wounds about the “seamless garment”...
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Catholic EXORCIST Fr Ripperger on DEMONIC Involvement on Recent Violent Attacks (Full LOCALS Version)
The headlines feel spiritual: violent acts draped in occult symbols, ideologies that sanctify chaos, and a news cycle designed to keep you angry and exhausted. We sit down to trace the deeper mechanics—how diabolic obsession chips away at a sou...
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Catholic EXORCIST Fr Ripperger on DEMONIC Involvement on Recent Violent Attacks
A culture that canonizes chaos will always look for a liturgy—if it’s not the Mass, it becomes the meme, the rally, or the cause. We sit down with Father Ripperger to trace how violence, ideology, and spiritual confusion so often follow the sam...
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Plug The Holes, Save A Life
There’s no soundtrack when a room erupts—just noise, panic, and seconds that matter. We brought in Christopher, a paramedic with 30 years of experience, to walk us through what actually saves lives before an ambulance arrives. This is a clear, ...
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The Tradistan Wars Continue: The MadTrads Come for Avoiding Babylon (Full LOCALS Version)
The Catholic Church stands at a critical crossroads, wounded and struggling to maintain its identity in the wake of Vatican II. In this profound conversation with Matt Gaspers, we explore a powerful analogy that frames our current moment: the C...
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The Tradistan Wars Continue: The MadTrads Come for Avoiding Babylon
The Catholic world stands at a crossroads following Pope Leo's election, with traditional Catholics debating the best path forward. Should they maintain the same vocal criticism that characterized the Francis era, or adopt a more measured appro...
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EDC - What's in your "every day carry?" - Guns 'N Rosaries Ep. 5
What you carry every day speaks volumes about your priorities and preparedness. In this deep-dive exploration of everyday carry philosophy, we break down the essential components of a thoughtful EDC system that goes far beyond just firearms.
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Will Pope Leo Kill the Trad Movement? - with Christian Wagner (Full LOCALS Version)
The Catholic media landscape is experiencing a seismic shift. After a decade where Pope Francis served as the perfect foil for traditional Catholic content creators, Pope Leo's arrival has disrupted the entire ecosystem.Anthony and Chri...
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