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Avoiding Babylon

Avoiding Babylon Crew

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!”

  1. 14 JAN

    Fulton Sheen to be Beatified while Roche Digs Himself a Bigger Hole

    Want to reach out to us? Want to leave a comment or review? Want to give us a suggestion or berate Anthony? Send us a text by clicking this link! Want the truth about where the trad world stands—without the coping or the clickbait? We follow the threads from Bishop Fulton Sheen’s long-delayed beatification, through Cardinal Roche’s letter on the liturgy, to the uncomfortable reality that a so-called youth movement has quietly gone gray. We get honest about what younger men are actually dealing with: a wrecked dating market, credential mills, debt-squeezed housing, and a job landscape warped by visas and offshoring. Against those pressures, endless arguments about documents and labels feel like theater. Tradition doesn’t need to be softer—it needs to be lived. Less quote-mining, more discipline. Less outrage, more parish life. Teach a traditional Catholic life. Live it for a century. Then evaluate the council when the smoke clears. We dive into Roche’s claim that the older books were a concession never intended to grow and hold it up to Benedict’s “mutual enrichment.” On the ground, where both forms coexist, reverence improves, and people discover the old rite without fleeing their parishes. That matters more than any memo. We also sit with Fulton Sheen’s “ape of the Church,” why hindsight on Vatican II is tricky, and why Sheen still draws seekers who are hungry for clarity and beauty. Finally, we talk about Scott Adams and the risk of treating salvation like a hack. Baptism, repentance, confession, and real community are not optional extras. The Sunday obligation protects the habit of belonging when screens tempt us to go it alone. If beauty saves, it does so in the flesh: Mass, meals, laughter, and the steady weight of shared prayer. Join us for a candid, hopeful reset. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs this conversation, and leave a review to help more people find the show. Then tell us: what should a real trad rebrand look like where you live? Support the show Take advantage of great Catholic red wines by heading over to https://recusantcellars.com/ and using code "BASED" for 10% off at checkout! ******************************************************** Please subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKsxnv80ByFV4OGvt_kImjQ?sub_confirmation=1 https://www.avoidingbabylon.com Merchandise: https://avoiding-babylon-shop.fourthwall.com Locals Community: https://avoidingbabylon.locals.com Full Premium/Locals Shows on Audio Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1987412/subscribe RSS Feed for Podcast Apps: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1987412.rss Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/AvoidingBabylon

    1h 19m
  2. 14 JAN • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Fulton Sheen to be Beatified while Roche Digs Himself a Bigger Hole (Full LOCALS Version)

    Pilgrimage plans, liturgy politics, and a hard reset on what young Catholics actually need—we cover it all with a mix of candor, humor, and concrete next steps. We pull on threads the news won’t: Fulton Sheen’s overdue beatification and how his voice—prophetic about the “ape of the Church” yet obedient—still steadies Catholics who grew up under John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Then we face the consistory and Cardinal Roche’s letter head-on: the reframing of the 1962 Missal as a mere concession, the sidelining of liturgy in favor of talking points, and the disconnect between “evangelization by beauty” and the refusal to protect beauty where it’s already thriving. If worship is the source and summit, it must look, sound, and feel like heaven breaks in.But the centerpiece is cultural honesty. The online trad world is aging. Young men aren’t arguing footnotes; they’re trying to build a life in a hostile economy: debt-heavy degrees, offshored work, H1B competition, locked housing, and a brutal dating market. If “tradition” can’t connect doctrine to jobs, marriage, and parish power, it turns into cosplay. We outline a better way: pair reverent worship with practical formation—mentorship, skills, stable work, local community, and courtship that actually leads to a wedding aisle.Two final cautions keep us grounded. Public “sinner’s prayers” online aren’t sacraments; pray for souls and cling to the ordinary means of grace. And race rhetoric is acid to the heart; culture matters for marriage and family, but Catholics can’t train themselves to despise their neighbors. Guard your speech, serve your parish, and measure every hot take against the Beatitudes. Want in on the pilgrimage or just craving a conversation that treats your life as real? Hit play, subscribe, and share this with a friend who needs both truth and hope.

    2h 13m
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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!”

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