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CALLED FROM THE BOOTH · ENGLISH · 2026

HOME TEAM

A Biased History of the Catholic Church

Tae Ho Guak, MD · neurologist, explorer of neurotheology, researcher of Catholic Church history

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.

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DETAILS

Details

FORMAT
Paperback, 6 × 9 in · eBook
PAGES
474
ISBN
979-11-221695-9-1 (paperback)
979-11-221695-7-7 (eBook)
PUBLICATION
eBook 2026 · paperback November 2026
PRICE
US $26.99 (paperback) · $12.99 (eBook)
CONTENTS
Books One, Two and Three in one volume

CONTENTS

Three books, from Nero to the Day of Pardon

  • Book OneNero to the Black Death · from the pope who put a corpse on trial to the plague that killed priests first
  • Book TwoThree Popes to Galileo · the Great Schism, the Reformation, Trent, Lepanto, Galileo, the Thirty Years’ War
  • Book ThreePrisoner of the Vatican to the Day of Pardon · Lourdes, 1870, Pius XII and the archives opened in 2020, Romero, Rwanda, Boston 2002, and 12 March 2000
  • AlsoA timeline to read first · notes on sources · epilogue, leaving the booth

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The paperback is distributed worldwide through Ingram, so any bookstore or library can order it by ISBN 979-11-221695-9-1.

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