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
"Endless Scrolling": Pope Leo's Blunt Warning to Catholics
Joy is not hiding at the bottom of your feed, and Pope Leo says it out loud. We start with his short, direct warning about endless scrolling, pornography culture, promiscuity, superficial relationships, and obsession with image, then pull on th...
"Endless Scrolling": Pope Leo's Blunt Warning to Catholics (Full LOCALS Show)
A two-minute clip from Pope Leo kicks off a much bigger conversation: where do we actually look for joy, and why are so many Catholics being formed more by screens than by silence, prayer, friendship, and real community? We react to his blunt l...
Meat Cleaver Road Rage (LOCALS Only Show)
A “road rage” headline is easy to skim past, until it happens on your block, in front of your job, and the footage lands on your phone. We talk through a brutal Queens attack involving a meat cleaver, what our coworkers actually saw, and why th...
Rerum Novarum LOCALS Show
A Friday meat post shouldn’t turn into a purity test, but online Catholic culture often makes it one. We get into why public callouts feel satisfying yet rarely help, how converts and cradle Catholics talk past each other, and what fraternal co...
Rome Has Spoken: The Pope Who Fought Capitalism AND Communism | Rerum Novarum Part 1
A pope under siege, with no army and no worldly leverage, writes a letter that rattles the rising powers of modern life. Rerum Novarum is Pope Leo XIII’s answer to an age that demanded a choice between two harsh gods: the factory that grinds fa...
Fan Mail
What is this new text message devilry? Happy New Year to you guys! Thanks for being (mostly—except Nick is trying to be Mr. Super Scholar) just real, down-to-earth guys trying to figure out this whole modern Catholic boondoggle. Love y’all.
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