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
652 episodes
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...
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...