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
647 episodes
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...
Pope Leo Just SHUT DOWN Same-Sex Blessings — "We Do Not Agree"
Pope Leo XIV just shut the door on the German bishops' push to formally bless same-sex couples — and the four-word line everyone is repeating tonight is "We do not agree." Leo's response, aimed squarely at Cardinal Reinhard Marx and the German ...
Pelican Plus: Paywalls And Pipe Dreams
We hit “end stream” by accident, recover on the fly, and end up exactly where our audience likes us most: the messy intersection of Catholic media, online tribalism, and the money that quietly shapes it all. If you’ve ever wondered why some Cat...
Trump vs Pope Leo: What Cardinal Manning Warned Us About 150 Years Ago
Cardinal Manning warned that before the Antichrist arrives, Rome would be surrounded — and the Pope, even a weak one, would be the last thing standing between the Church and the secular powers gathering against her. Tonight we read that prophec...
Constantinople Fell in 1453, But These Men Refused to Bow
A city that called itself Rome is surrounded, outnumbered, and running out of time. We bring on Ryan Grant to walk us through the fall of Constantinople in 1453, from the long fuse of Byzantine decline to the moment Mehmed II finally gets his p...
Pope Leo Responds as Trump and MAGA Declare War on Catholics
Pope Leo XIV has responded — and the battle lines between MAGA and faithful Catholics have never been clearer. In this episode, we break down Trump's escalating rhetoric, the coordinated effort to cast Catholics as enemies of America, and why t...
Pope Leo Responds as Trump and MAGA Declare War on Catholics
Something strange is happening to Catholic life online: we’re starting to talk about presidents the way we should talk about saints, and we’re starting to talk about popes the way cable news talks about politicians. We kick off with the Trump v...
Did Tucker Just Call Trump the ANTICHRIST? And Pope Leo Makes Waves
Your feed can turn any political figure into a saint and any pope into a villain in about five minutes, and that’s exactly the trap we’re trying to name out loud. A livestream failure knocks us off YouTube, but the bigger breakdown is what we’r...
Did Tucker Just Call Trump the ANTICHRIST? And Pope Leo Makes Waves (Full LOCALS Show)
You can tell a lot about the state of Catholic life by what derails us. A sponsor read turns into a full platform failure, and the tech chaos quickly exposes something bigger: how easily our attention gets hijacked by online factions, trad dram...
Just Became Catholic? Here's What To Do Your First Year
Becoming Catholic can feel like a spiritual adrenaline rush, until you hit the first real Monday morning and realize you still have to live it. We sit down with Keith Nestor, author of The Convert’s Guide to Roman Catholicism, to talk about wha...
Just Became Catholic? Here's What To Do Your First Year (Full LOCALS Version)
The honeymoon phase of conversion is real and it’s beautiful. But what happens when you walk into your first Catholic Mass, nobody greets you, the parish feels foreign, and your old friends start questioning whether you’re “still Christian”? We...
Pax Judaica: The Empire of Spectacle w/ Dr. Deep State
Everything feels louder than it should, and somehow less real at the same time. That’s the tension we sit with as Dr. Haugen (Dr. Deep State) joins us to talk about spectacle, propaganda, and the slow spiritual cost of living inside an attentio...
Pax Judaica: The Empire of Spectacle w/ Dr. Deep State (Full LOCALS Version)
The fastest way to lose your grip on reality is to let the spectacle pick your next thought for you. We sit down with Dr. Haugen, known online as Dr. Deep State, to talk about why modern politics can feel like theater, how psyops and media mani...
Good Friday Has Changed — Most Catholics Don't Know This (with Father Mawdsley)
Holy Week hits different when you stop treating it like a reenactment and start treating it like formation. We sit down with Father Mawdsley to talk about the older Catholic instincts that the liturgy can rebuild: steady trust under pressure, c...
Traditional Latin Mass Ban Is Ending? Leo & Parolin Drop Bombshells
A single rumor from Rome can light the fuse again: is Pope Leo quietly trying to de-escalate the fight over the Traditional Latin Mass and stop turning Catholic liturgy into a battlefield? We start with the latest chatter around easing hostilit...
Traditional Latin Mass Ban Is Ending? Leo & Parolin Drop Bombshells (Full LOCALS Version)
The Vatican may be signaling a truce in the liturgy wars, and we can’t ignore what that could mean for the Traditional Latin Mass after Traditionis Custodes. We walk through fresh reporting and rumors around Pope Leo’s desire to de-escalate div...
Protestants Team Up with Kosher Catholics to Attack Scott Hahn
A husband posts that his wife “was formerly promiscuous” and he “was a virgin,” and somehow we’re all expected to nod along like it’s spiritual content. That moment opens a bigger problem we can’t ignore: testimony culture is starting to look l...
Protestants Team Up with Kosher Catholics to Attack Scott Hahn (Full LOCALS Show)
A stranger’s “testimony” goes viral because it isn’t really a testimony at all: it’s a husband announcing to the world that his wife “was formerly promiscuous” while he was a virgin. We start there and ask the uncomfortable question modern Chri...
The State of Tradistan w/ Catholic Esquire
One bad Mass can haunt you for years. So can one truly reverent one that finally makes the Catholic faith click.We sit down with Catholic Esquire to trace the path a lot of serious Catholics have quietly taken: from lukewarm Novus Ordo ...
Christians at War Over Israel | Full Discussion with Sam Shamoun
Christian Zionism sounds “Bible based” until you actually follow the Bible’s own rules for reading the Bible. We start with the claim that many Christians were taught: God still has a separate covenant with Israel, modern return to the land ful...
Christians at War Over Israel | Full Discussion with Sam Shamoun (Full LOCALS Show)
The fastest way to get lost in Bible prophecy is to treat the Old Testament like it outranks the New Testament. We sit down for a blunt, text-driven walk through Christian Zionism, covenant theology, and Romans 9–11, asking a question that keep...
The World Is Waking Up to Jesus — Here's Why
Something feels different lately, and we can’t be the only ones noticing it. When Joe Rogan starts talking about church, praising the teachings of Jesus, and asking out loud “who was Jesus Christ?”, that’s not just another trending clip. It’s a...
Has the Fourth Turning Arrived? AI, Collapse & What Comes Next
A strange AI intro sets the tone for a conversation about power, myth, and the cracks running through our civilization. We start with Tucker’s claim that some believers try to force God’s hand, and that secular boosters dream of a tech-ruled fu...
Has the Fourth Turning Arrived? AI, Collapse & What Comes Next (Full LOCALS Version)
What if war isn’t just about borders and resources, but a bid to birth a new age? We start with Tucker’s provocation and push beyond the usual takes, tracing how sacred language and secular power intertwine—from end‑times zeal to technocratic d...