Via Fidelis — The Faithful Way
To the clergy and faithful of the Old Roman Apostolate,
and to all who seek the truth of Christ,
grace and peace in Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Carissimi, Beloved in Christ,
The motto of this edition, Via Fidelis, is no abstraction. It is a call to fidelity in a moment of grave trial, both in the world and within the Church. The Lord said, “Ego sum via, et veritas, et vita” (Jn 14:6). To walk the Way faithfully means resisting compromise with error, confessing Christ clearly when others fall silent, and holding fast to the sacraments and liturgy entrusted to us.
Fidelity in the Midst of Confusion
This edition of Nuntiatoria opens with reports that show how urgently the Faithful Way is needed. In Italy, as our article ‘Gay blessings’ and Fiducia Supplicans lead priests into free fall recounts, a priest openly blessed a same-sex union using a Waldensian rite, excusing it in the name of “love.” From Kazakhstan, the Holy Father’s message to an interfaith meeting, analysed alongside Bishop Schneider’s warnings in Perennialism and Pluralism, risks suggesting that God wills a plurality of religions. In China, as we detail in China Outlaws Online Preaching and Prayer in Sweeping Religion Crackdown, the state has criminalised even the simplest acts of faith online, while Vatican diplomacy offers no relief. These are not isolated incidents but signs of a Church and a world adrift. Via Fidelis reminds us: there is but one Way, and it is Christ.
Fidelity in Worship
The Apostolate’s fidelity is most visible in the sacred liturgy. Our coverage of Pope Leo XIV in Professor Rist: St Augustine Would Have Been ‘Appalled’ at Recent Vatican Events and in the report A Filial and Apprehensive Supplication to His Holiness Pope Leo XIV makes clear how unsettled the Church remains concerning the Tridentine Mass. Documents that restrict it treat a treasure as though it were a threat. But the liturgy is not our possession to remodel; it is God’s gift to be guarded. In this same number, the Tridentine Feasts of September remind us how the saints were formed by these rites: St. Matthew, St. Cyprian, St. Cosmas and Damian, and Our Lady of Walsingham. To abandon these forms of prayer would be to walk another way.
Fidelity in Witness
The saints testify that fidelity costs but bears fruit. St. Cyprian gave his life for unity in truth, St. Linus sealed his with martyrdom, and Our Lady of Walsingham gathers her children to contemplate the Incarnation. Their witness is not optional piety but a map of the Faithful Way.
In our own day, God continues to raise up witnesses. The murder of Charlie Kirk, whose testimony we recall in Charlie Kirk’s Witness: Fidelity unto Death, shocked the world. Though not publicly received into the Catholic Church, he had spoken warmly of her faith and was reportedly close to entering. Cardinal Müller has called him a martyr for Christ. His courage, like that of the martyrs of old, shows us that Via Fidelis is not only an ancient path but the way souls in every age reach heaven.
Fidelity Against the Spirit of the Age
The world praises inclusion, tolerance, and the evolution of doctrine, but these words conceal a deeper apostasy. In No, DEI Does Not Mean God, we examine how even well-meaning Catholics collude with secular ideologies under the guise of compassion. In Friendship Without Truth: The Perils of the Saint Ninian Declaration, we show how false ecumenism exchanges fidelity for pleasantries. In Unequal Measures: Downplaying the Many, Exaggerating the Few, we expose how political narratives distort truth, contrasting harsh treatment of patriotic marches with indulgence toward fashionable causes. These examples reveal how easily Catholics can be seduced by the world’s rhetoric. The Apostolate cannot imitate this drift. Our task is to be a clear trumpet³, declaring with courage: Via Fidelis — there is one Way, and it must be walked faithfully.
Fidelity as Mission
This is why the Old Roman Apostolate exists.
- To proclaim Christ clearly in a world of compromise.
- To offer the sacraments validly and worthily, untouched by innovation.
- To form souls, families, and communities in holiness, resisting the false compassion of ideology with the true charity of Christ crucified.
We are not naïve about our irregular situation; we know what is said of us. But fidelity is its own vindication. To remain faithful to what has always and everywhere been taught and celebrated is to remain in the Way of Christ Himself.
A Call to Persevere
Beloved brethren, the Faithful Way is narrow and often scorned. Yet the Lord who walked it before us walks with us still. To keep to this path is not to turn backward, but to advance steadily toward the heavenly Jerusalem. Let us stand, as the prophet commands, upon the ways, and ask for the ancient paths — for Via Fidelis is the good way that leads to rest for our souls (Jer 6:16)⁴.
With the Cross as our staff, the Eucharist as our food, and the saints as our companions, let us not be seduced by other roads.
Via Fidelis. The Faithful Way. This is the path of Christ. Let us walk in it.
Haec est Via.
✠Jerome Seleisi
Titular Archbishop of Selsey
Primus of the Old Roman Apostolate
- St Cyprian of Carthage, De unitate ecclesiae 6: “Habere iam non potest Deum patrem qui Ecclesiam non habet matrem.”
- Cardinal Gerhard Müller, interview with Diane Montagna, Rome, September 17, 2025 (cf. Charlie Kirk’s Witness: Fidelity unto Death).
- Pope St. Pius X, Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): “It is necessary for all pastors to raise their voices, like a trumpet, in defense of the flock entrusted to them.”
- Jer 6:16.
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