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
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...
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