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
Insanity Defense On Trial (LOCALS Only Show)
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Access to the FULL show on audio!A mother kills her children, the internet rushes to explain it away, and a courtroom has to decide what “insanity” actually means. We work through the Lindsay Clancy trial with a focus on the part most people miss: Massachusetts still puts key pressure on the prosecution when insanity is claimed, and that burden of proof shapes how every detail lands with a jury. If you’ve felt confused by headlines, hot takes, and viral clips, we slow it down and ask what the law is really doing and what justice demands for the victims.
From there we get into the testimony that changed our read of the case, including the term “altruistic filicide,” the argument about planning versus psychosis, and the competing stories around psychiatric meds, doctor shopping, and the credibility of a suicide attempt. We also wrestle with the uncomfortable religious layer that shows up in the record: language about “going to God,” the courtroom blowup over mentioning mortal sin, and the bigger Catholic catechesis problem of people not knowing what the Church teaches about suicide, judgment, and sin.
Then the conversation broadens into culture. We respond to commentary that treats a public murder trial as a gratuitous spectacle, and we argue about whether privacy can outweigh justice. We also share clips and debates that expose the same pattern in the Church: Roy Schoeman’s critique of soft ecumenism and dual covenant theory, and a blunt back-and-forth on marriage, obedience, and what holiness actually demands when feelings change.
Finally, we hit the strange turn where Catholic mystical claims get repackaged as UFO or alien lore, and we lay out a simpler frame: saints, angels, demons, and the supernatural are not science fiction. If you want thoughtful, unfiltered commentary on true crime, Catholic theology, and the narratives shaping public life, subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review. What part of this story do you think the public is getting most wrong?
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