Jacques Eric Fabre-Jeune, C.S., known before May 2022 as Jacques Fabre, (born November 13, 1955) is a Haitian-born American prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as bishop of the Diocese of Charleston in South Carolina since 2022.
Fabre-Jeune is the first African American to become bishop of Charleston and the first Haitian-American to head a diocese. Since becoming a priest with the Scalabrinians in 1986, Fabre-Jeune has worked in Florida and Georgia, the Dominican Republic, and briefly at a refugee camp at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.
Jacques Fabre-Jeune was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on November 13, 1955; he had five siblings. He emigrated to the United States as a teenager and completed high school in New York City. He attended St. John's University in New York, then went to Saint Michael's College in Toronto, Ontario. As a Scalabrini novice, Fabre-Jeune worked at one of their missions in Mexico. He speaks five languages including English, Spanish, Italian, French and Creole.
Fabre-Jeune also studied at the Catholic Theological Union in Hyde Park, Illinois, and at the Scalabrini House of Theology in Chicago. The Scalabrini Order then sent him to study in Rome, where he received a Master of Divinity degree and a Licentiate in Migration Studies from the Pontifical Urbaniana University.
John Frankman
John Frankman was a Captain in the Army who served as a Green Beret assigned to 7th Special Forces Group. On July 1st, of 2023, he separated from active duty after 8 years of service due to difficulties surrounding the COVID 19 vax mandate.
Before going on active duty, he spent four years in the Catholic seminary studying for the Archdiocese of Washington and the Military Archdiocese. He entered active duty as an Infantry Officer and completed the Infantry Basic Officer Leadership Course, Airborne School, and Ranger School. After serving as an Infantry Officer, he was selected to attend the Special Forces Qualification Course where he also completed SERE school (Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape) and completed the Military Free Fall Course.
Of all of his military accomplishments, he considers refusing the immoral and illegal COVID vax his proudest moment. He is a convert to the Catholic faith and holds a M.A. in systematic theology. Since leaving the Army, he has been advocating for accountability and restitution on behalf of service members negatively affected by the mandate and is working for the spiritual and political renewal of this country.
John Edwards - Catholic For Rednecks
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E-Knock
Fawaz Yasi, whose stage name is “E-Knock,” is a traditional Catholic rapper. He released his first album, Traditionis, in March of 2022. Yasi, a Syriac Christian from Northern Iraq, emigrated to the US with his family at the age of five. Yasi shares his love for homesteading (listen for the rooster), the Church, youth ministry and, of course, rap music. More info coming soon...
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!”
Rick Barrett (Master of Ceremonies)
Rick is a cradle Catholic and husband of 14+ years. Born and raised in the suburbs of Rhode Island, he left the teaching profession to pursue his passion, firearms and firearms training. He now organizes The Armed Catholic, a firearms education and training organization. Rick reverted to the faith in 2014, enrolling in the Brown Scapular Devotion and consecrating himself to Saint Joseph and his family to Mother Mary.