Tae Ho Guak
Every history of the Catholic Church is written from somewhere. This one is written from the broadcast booth, by a fan who has read the record and is not switching the camera off.Tae Ho Guak is a neurologist in Korea and a Catholic. Here he sits through two thousand years of his own team’s games: the plague years when Christians stayed in the cities, the century when one Roman family bought and sold the papacy, Canossa, the Crusades, Galileo, the witch trials, the Jesuits of Georgetown selling two hundred and seventy-two people, the silence of 1943, the cover-ups of 2002, and the morning in March 2000 when a pope stood up and asked forgiveness for all of it.He cheers when his team wins. He says so when it fouls. He tells you which is which. Three books in one volume, from Nero to the Day of Pardon, with a timeline to read first and the sources at the back.
