Apologia: A Memoir
Fr Aidan Nichols
Gracewing, £12.99, 164 pages
With St John Henry Newman, Fr Aidan Nichols has found the “need to be similarly apologetic” about his life and theological work. Mostly “a human story”, the tale gives him an opportunity to justify some of his actions, as well as to make “an appeal to the Church universal”.
A widely respected academic, in 2019 Fr Nichols was among 19 signatories of an open letter to the bishops of the world which urged them to ask Pope Francis to clarify certain aspects of his teaching. Since then he has found his concerns and criticisms to have been “life-changing”.
