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
670 episodes
Nancy Charles: I Escaped the LGBT Lifestyle to Live a Chaste Catholic Life
She was alone, spiraling, and ready to end her life. Then a single thought cut through everything: “What if the pain doesn’t end here?” That question didn’t just stop Nancy, it started a chain of events she still can’t explain away: five days o...
Rome Has Spoken: The Most Contested Encyclical in the Modern Church | Immortale Dei
You’ve probably heard the Saint Michael Prayer. The part most people miss is that its origin story is bound up with a Pope who believed the Church was facing more than bad politics, and he answered with something sharper than commentary: Immort...
Rome Has Spoken: The Most Contested Encyclical in the Modern Church | Immortale Dei (Full LOCALS Show)
If you’ve ever assumed “separation of church and state” is the safest way to keep the peace, Pope Leo XIII has a blunt counterargument: a state that acts like God is irrelevant eventually rewrites everything that holds a society together. We wa...
This can't continue... | Karmelo Anthony, Henry Nowak, and Belfast
Something feels different lately: the same news cycle, the same platforms, but a heavier sense of pressure, anger, and exhaustion. We start with a last-minute scramble when Rob can’t make it, and Mike Pantile jumps in on short notice, then we g...
This can't continue... | Karmelo Anthony, Henry Nowak, and Belfast
Everything feels louder, harsher, and more exhausting than it used to and we can’t ignore that mood anymore. With Rob sidelined by last-minute car trouble, Mike Pantile jumps in and we go straight at the question behind so many late-night doom ...
Rome Has Spoken: When the Pope Declared War on Secret Societies | Humanum Genus
For 146 years, pope after pope warns Catholics about a secret society and almost nobody listens. So Leo XIII does something different: he frames the whole problem as a war between two cities, the City of God and the City of Man, and then names ...
Vatican Picks A Zionist As Press Secretary | McElroy Removes The Exorcist
A few viral clips and one Vatican appointment raise a bigger question than most Catholic media wants to touch: when Church communications tries to sound modern, does it end up teaching something else entirely? We dig into the resurfaced audio a...
Vatican Picks A Zionist As Press Secretary | McElroy Removes The Exorcist (Full LOCALS Show)
The internet can bury a clip for years, then resurrect it the moment a person gets real power. That’s the mood today: a major Vatican communications appointment collides with old comments about Catholic-Jewish relations, evangelization, and “su...
Rome Has Spoken: The Encyclical That Brought Aquinas Back | Aeterni Patris (Apple Video Podcast Test)
Europe is declaring the Catholic faith “obsolete,” the Papal States are gone, and the Pope is effectively boxed into Rome. That’s the moment Leo XIII steps into, and instead of answering with another list of condemnations, he reaches back to a ...
Rome Has Spoken: The Encyclical That Brought Aquinas Back | Aeterni Patris
The modern world keeps telling you the problem is politics, policy, or personality. We argue it’s deeper: bad philosophy becomes bad theology, then bad culture, and eventually a society that can’t even explain what truth, freedom, or the human ...
Rome Has Spoken: The Encyclical That Brought Aquinas Back | Aeterni Patris (Full LOCALS Show)
Europe tried to bury the Catholic Church in the late 1800s. The Papal States were gone, bishops were being exiled, Catholic schools were getting squeezed, and the intellectual class was busy announcing that faith was obsolete. So when Leo XIII ...
100,000 Subscribers: Where Avoiding Babylon Goes From Here (Live Q&A)
100,000 subscribers is supposed to feel like a finish line. For us, it feels like turning on the camera, realizing the lighting is still bad, and choosing to fix it live anyway. This milestone stream is a behind-the-scenes look at how our Catho...
100,000 Subscribers: Where Avoiding Babylon Goes From Here (Full LOCALS Show)
100,000 subscribers is supposed to mean you “made it” but the weird truth is our views don’t look anything like they used to, and the algorithm feels more unpredictable than ever. So we kept this milestone stream honest: we troubleshoot the stu...
The Glorification of Man Over God w/ Michael Hichborn
A papal document tries to warn the world about artificial intelligence, but what happens when the warning itself is so ambiguous that it feels like it cannot guide anyone’s conscience? We dig into Pope Leo’s new AI text and ask the questions th...
Faithful in the Crisis: A Priest's Advice for Catholics w/ Fr. Amato
Death doesn’t schedule itself, and when it arrives suddenly it can make even strong people feel numb, angry, or terrified. We sit down with Father Anthony Amato to talk about what happens on the ground when a family gets that midnight phone cal...
Faithful in the Crisis: A Priest's Advice for Catholics w/ Fr. Amato (Full LOCALS Show)
Death has a way of walking into the room without asking permission. We start with a real, late-night phone call about a sudden loss, then follow the ripple effects: the shock that hits a family, the unique weight a spouse carries, and the reali...
Rome Has Spoken: The Last Pope-King & the Council That Declared Him Infallible | Vatican I
Rome Has Spoken: The Last Pope-King & the Council That Declared Him Infallible | Vatican I (Full LOCALS Show)
A thunderstorm turns St. Peter’s Basilica dark as bishops vote to define papal infallibility and within weeks Rome is breached and the Papal States effectively die. That collision of theology and geopolitics is the heart of our Vatican I deep d...
Rome Has Spoken: The Once Liberal Pope Who Tried to Warn Us | Quanta Cura & Syllabus of Errors
A pope gets crowned as the hero of progress and then publishes a document telling bishops to treat modern ideas like a “fatal pestilence.” That swing sounds impossible until you walk the road with Pope Pius IX from 1846 to 1864, with riots in t...
Rome Has Spoken: The Once Liberal Pope Who Tried to Warn Us | Quanta Cura & Syllabus of Errors (Full LOCALS Show)
A pope hailed as a reformer becomes the pope who publishes the most uncompromising condemnation of the modern world written to that point and the timeline is wilder than most people realize. We follow Pope Pius IX from his 1846 election and ear...
Government Officials Warned Pastors: Alien Disclosure is Coming w/ Daniel O'Connor & Joshua Charles
The strangest part of the UAP “disclosure” wave is not a blurry video or a leaked memo. It’s the insistence that what’s coming will “rewrite history,” redefine our place in the cosmos, and trigger a new kind of spiritual awakening. When the Pen...
Rome Has Spoken: Gregory XVI's Prophetic Warning Against Liberalism | Mirari Vos
A pope in 1832 looks out at Europe and sees something most people still refuse to name: ideas can riot. Revolutions do not stay in streets and parliaments. They move into schools, pulpits, newspapers, and finally into the way ordinary people ta...
Rome Has Spoken: Gregory XVI's Prophetic Warning Against Liberalism | Mirari Vos (Full LOCALS Show)
A pope writes in 1832 while his own territory is in revolt, European monarchies are toppling again, and a famous priest in Paris is preaching “God and Liberty” as the future of the Church. That’s the pressure-cooker behind Mirari Vos, and once ...
Benedict XVI and the Mystery of Evil in the Church (Full LOCALS Show)
The Catholic Church crisis can feel like it’s changing by the hour, and the loudest voices usually offer two options: pretend nothing matters or declare the whole thing invalid. We take a different route and dig into an older, stranger, and sur...
Benedict XVI and the Mystery of Evil in the Church
The mystery of iniquity is no longer hidden — it's operating in broad daylight. In this full episode, we take the long view on what Scripture, the Church Fathers, and Pope Benedict XVI all warned was coming: the unraveling of the Restrainer, th...