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
Touch Grass: The Devil Is Using Church Drama to Keep You From Heaven
The Catholic internet can make you feel like you have to pick a team every five minutes and if you refuse, you’re the enemy. We’re tired of that, so we talk honestly about burnout after the SSPX blowups, the pressure to perform certainty online...
Touch Grass: The Devil Is Using Church Drama to Keep You From Heaven (Full LOCALS Show)
The Catholic internet is in full civil war mode, and we’re tired. We start by naming the burnout and then get honest about what happens when the arguments stop being theoretical. A funeral turns into “Novus Ordo roulette,” Communion gets mishan...
SSPX Fallout and Catholic Infighting w/ Michael Hichborn
One decision lit the fuse across Tradland: SSPX consecrations, a papal command to stop, and the cascading arguments about excommunication, obedience, and whether “resistance” can stay Catholic. With Rob away, we sit down with Michael Hitchbourn...
SSPX Fallout and Catholic Infighting w/ Michael Hichborn
A single decision in Rome can light a fuse across the Catholic world, and that’s exactly what happens when the SSPX consecrations collide with papal warnings and a decree of excommunication. With Rob away at a family funeral, we take a hard loo...
SSPX Drama Continues: Sede Inc. Comes After Avoiding Babylon
A single letter from Rome can change the whole temperature of the Catholic internet, and this one hits like a brick: Pope Leo pleads with the SSPX to “please turn back,” warns of a “schismatic act,” and points to the seamless garment of Christ....
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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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