Bishop Steven J. Lopes spoke Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025 (the First Sunday of Advent), at Church of the Most Precious Blood in London, England.

The Ordinariate and Parish Church of the Most Precious Blood is in the Archdiocese of Southwark and was placed under the care of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in 2013.

Bishop Steven Lopes of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter joined host Andrew Petiprin on an episode of the Ignatius Press Podcast to discuss the upcoming recognition of St. John Henry Newman (1801-1890) as a Doctor of the Universal Church.

This Ordinariate Audio presentation features excerpts from that September 2025 podcast.

John Henry Newman entered the Catholic Church in 1845 after serving as a priest and theologian in the Anglican Church in England. He is only the 38th person to be declared a Doctor of the Church.

Newman's written works include "An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine" (1845), "Apologia Pro Vita Sua" (1864), and "An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent" (1870).

In the 1830s, Newman became associated with the Oxford Movement, which promoted the renewal of catholic thought and practice within the Church of England.

Podcast host Andrew Petiprin holds an M.Div. from Yale University and an M.Phil from Oxford University. He served as a priest and administrator in The Episcopal Church (USA) before coming into full communion with the Catholic Church in 2019.

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Note: The complete version of this Ignatius Press Podcast, nearly an hour long, includes remarks by Dr. Jennifer Martin, professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame.

However, for this Ordinariate Audio version, we are presenting only the comments of Bishop Lopes, since he touched on several topics related to Ordinariate clergy and church communities. Brief music interludes indicate where content from the longer-form version of the podcast has been removed.

For the unedited version of the podcast, released on Sept. 8, 2025, visit https://podcast.ignatius.com/e/saint-john-henry-newman-a-protestant-to-a-doctor-of-the-catholic-church-w-bishop-lopes-and-dr-jennifer-martin/.

At an Ordination on the Eve of the Solemnity of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Bishop Steven J. Lopes reflected on the patronage of those two Apostles for the ministry of the Ordinariate.

The Mass of Ordination (for Andrew James Westerman and Jeffrey Lee Baker) was held at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham in Houston, Texas.

NOTE: The audio contains a few minor dropouts. Also, an echo is noticeable from about about the 1:30 mark until about 9:00.

Bishop Steven J. Lopes spoke at a March 2024 Parish Mission held at St. Michael Catholic Church in Houston, Texas.

In July 2023, Bishop Steven J. Lopes presented this homily during a Mass said for the Summer Conference of the Napa Institute, held in Napa, Calif.

The Napa Institute, founded in 2011, "empowers Catholic leaders to renew the Church and transform the culture."

In September 2021, Bishop Steven J. Lopes was the keynote speaker at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C.

A transcript of his remarks is here .

In June 2021, Bishop Steven J. Lopes spoke as part of the Truth and Tradition Summer Theology Lecture Series sponsored by the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas.

This recording contains minor audio anomalies and has been abridged slightly. It was recorded via the online meeting platform Zoom.

In early 2021, Bishop Steven J. Lopes, speaking in Houston, Texas, gave a Defense of the Faith address to the Order of Malta Federal Association U.S.A. The Order of Malta is a centuries-old international lay religious order of the Catholic Church.

Note: This recording, made via an online Zoom connection, is of low fidelity.

In November 2019, Bishop Steven J. Lopes spoke at a Conference on The Anglican Tradition in the Catholic Church, held at St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica in Toronto, Ontario (Canada).

The event was sponsored by the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society.

In early 2019, Bishop Steven J. Lopes spoke in Oklahoma City at the quarterly luncheon of the Assembly of Catholic Professionals, a membership organization sponsored by the Catholic Foundation of Oklahoma.