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
571 episodes
A Rare Win: How Knives Out 3 PORTRAYS the Priesthood
Knives Out 3: A murder in a neo‑gothic church, a boxer who traded the ring for a collar, and a monsignor whose thunder hides a storm—this story had us leaning in from skepticism to surprise. What starts like a stylish whodunit unfolds into a th...
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A Rare Win: How Knives Out 3 PORTRAYS the Priesthood (Full LOCALS Version)
A murder mystery shouldn’t make you think about confession, typology, and the weight of a conscience—but this one does, and we couldn’t look away. We dive into a new Netflix whodunit that centers on two very different priests: a former boxer ha...
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What a Woman Is - w/ Tim Gordon and Mike Pantile
A cold open with tech chaos turned into one of our most honest conversations about how a fringe thesis became a full‑scale cultural confrontation. We chart the path from announcing The Case for Patriarchy in 2019, to fiery debates that shocked ...
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The Enemies of All Mankind - w/ E Michael Jones
What happens when a culture starts bending truth to fit its desires? We follow that question across surprising terrain—Freud’s hidden motives, Wagner’s spell over European imagination, Bauhaus boxes that flatten the human spirit, and the concre...
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The Enemies of All Mankind - w/ E Michael Jones (Full LOCALS Show)
Start with a hard choice: do we conform our desires to truth, or force truth to suit our desires? That’s the spark for a wide-ranging conversation with E. Michael Jones that threads through Freud’s claims, Wagner’s seductions, Schoenberg’s brea...
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The Catholic Gospel vs The Protestant Gospel
Tired of surface-level hot takes during Advent? We press pause on the news cycle and dive into Scripture’s living architecture—how David, Solomon, Isaiah, and John converge to reveal a Kingdom that isn’t just future hope but present reality. We...
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The Catholic Gospel vs The Protestant Gospel (Full LOCALS Version)
Looking for a real Advent reset? We pressed pause on headlines and went all in on the story that makes sense of everything—from David’s throne to John’s Gospel to the altar at your parish. A new series sent us back to Samuel and Kings, and sudd...
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Is Michael Matt Alienating Young Trads?
The spark was simple: a high-profile pro-life voice spoke out about pornography, and Catholic Twitter went nuclear. We don’t argue over whether porn is destructive; we press into who should say what, to whom, and where. That means asking hard q...
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Is Michael Matt Alienating Young Trads? (Full LOCALS Version)
A social media firestorm over who should speak to men about pornography reveals something bigger: a generation hungry for ordered roles, modesty in public discourse, and real male leadership. We don’t argue that truth changes based on who says ...
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Will All Israel be Saved? A Deep Dive into Scott Hahn on Romans 9-11
What if Paul’s fiercest argument isn’t a detour but the key that ties Israel’s story together? We took a five-hour deep dive into Romans 9–11 and came up for air convinced that Paul’s mission to the Gentiles is how God keeps his promise to Isra...
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Will All Israel be Saved? A Deep Dive into Scott Hahn on Romans 9-11 (Full LOCALS Version)
Five hours in Romans 9–11 can rearrange your mental furniture. We walked through Paul’s argument line by line, then stepped back into the long story: Genesis birthrights that skip the firstborn, Joseph as a type of Christ ruling among the Genti...
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Bloody Queen Bess - The Real Story of England’s Protestant Revolution
Power rarely moves quietly, and our tour through the English Reformation proves it. We start with a young, athletic Henry VIII whose dynastic panic collided with fragile Tudor legitimacy and recent civil war. From Wolsey’s velvet control to Cro...
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Scott Hahn Refutes Catholic Zionism in Awkward Exchange
A flooded basement, a dead furnace, and three kids shivering through a New York winter. We start with a human story and a fundraiser that turned into a lesson in Christian charity—how a community can change a family’s life overnight. Then we pi...
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Scott Hahn Refutes Catholic Zionism in Awkward Exchange (Full LOCALS Version)
A family crisis set the tone for what became one of our most candid episodes: real need, real gratitude, and then a turn into real theology. After updating you on a fundraiser to replace a destroyed boiler after last year’s flood, we unpack the...
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Groypers & The Future of Catholic Inc?
The ground beneath Catholic life is moving: a diocese weighs merger, a flagship university faces succession questions, and a younger right is quietly mastering the mechanics of power. We open with Steubenville’s crossroads and the outsized infl...
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The Future of Catholic Inc? (Full LOCALS Version)
What holds a Catholic ecosystem together: buildings, budgets, or the people who make donors care? We open with Steubenville’s possible merger and the weight of Scott Hahn’s legacy to ask a bigger question about succession, prestige, and what ha...
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From Mass Of The Ages To Movie Crusade: Reclaiming Culture Through Film
What if the stories we stream every night are shaping our souls more than any sermon we hear on Sunday? That’s the heartbeat of this candid conversation with Mass of the Ages director Cameron O’Hearn—a filmmaker who pulled a hit film at 1.6 mil...
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Massie's New Wife Sparks Faith Debate Across America
What if the hardest part of grief isn’t the loss itself, but how the living watch you handle it? We dive straight into a thorny question: is there a “right” time to remarry after a spouse dies, especially when children are still grieving and th...
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Massie's New Wife Sparks Faith Debate Across America (Full LOCALS Episode)
A year after a spouse dies, is remarriage a betrayal, a grace, or just life unfolding? We open with a candid look at grief, family, and the uneasy line between private healing and public announcements. The question isn’t just “how long,” it’s w...
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Possessed Man Tries to Desecrate Tabernacle
Two timelines. Dozens of videos. One uncomfortable pattern: our feeds are training us to fight. We set out to play a simple game—“Whose feed is it?”—and ended up mapping how algorithms steer attention toward outrage, race-bait clips, and cultur...
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Possessed Man Tries to Desecrate Tabernacle (Full LOCALS Version)
Ever look at your feed and feel like someone’s trying to make you hate your neighbor? We put that to the test with a live “algorithm roulette,” guessing whose timeline each clip came from and asking why so much of it pushes race-bait thefts, EB...
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Matt Fradd Signs with the Daily Wire as Nick Fuentes Splits the Catholic Right
A Catholic podcast just got bought—and the tremor is bigger than one show. We open the hood on what happens when a platform promises reach and relief: fewer invoices, more producers, cleaner schedules. But where do the lines get drawn? We walk ...
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Matt Fradd Signs with the Daily Wire as Nick Fuentes Splits the Catholic Right (Full LOCALS Version)
A headline Catholic podcast just signed with a major conservative network, and the reaction says more about the state of Catholic media than any press release could. We talk frankly about what “creative control” means when brand risk sets the p...
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When Catholic Tradition Collides With Globalist Powers w/ Fr Mawdsley
The feed wants your anger, your attention, and your time. We want your freedom. This conversation pulls on three threads that are fraying daily life: algorithmic outrage that keeps us at war with each other, border and immigration policies that...
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Cardinal Burke Makes Strange Claim About AI Videos of Himself
A fake video goes viral, a holiday explodes across timelines, and suddenly everyone’s arguing about culture, borders, and the Church. We dig into how AI hoaxes and algorithmic rage bait are reshaping the conversation around faith and public lif...
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