• Saint Mary the Virgin Altar Consecration
    Saint Mary the Virgin Altar Consecration
    August 27, 2019
    Consecration of Saint Mary the Virgin's (Arlington, Texas) new altar by Bishop Lopes on the Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary 2019. Photos courtesy of Stephen Schmitt https://www.flickr.com/photos/8833068@N08/
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  • National Catholic Register Interview
    August 16, 2019
    Bishop Lopes: Catholics need to experience the real presence of Jesus through worship and fellowship in the beauty of holiness.
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  • Anglicanorum Coetibus 10th Anniversary Pilgrimage
    Anglicanorum Coetibus 10th Anniversary Pilgrimage
    July 16, 2019
    Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter Pilgrimage in honor of the 10th Anniversary of Anglicanorum Coetibus. Led by Most Rev. Steven J. Lopes and Ordinariate Clergy Including London, Oxford, Cambridge, Walsingham, Norwich and Rome. May 3-14, 2020.
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  • The Journey to Sainthood
    The Journey to Sainthood
    July 3, 2019
    The Journey to Sainthood | Newman Canonization | Rome, October 13th --- John Henry Newman will be the first English person who has lived since the 17th century officially recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. If you want to be present for this historic and blessed moment, here is what you need to know.
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  • Pope to canonize Newman and four others on 13 October
    July 1, 2019
    The Vatican announces the date of the canonization of Blessed John Henry Newman along with four others on the third Sunday of October 2019.
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  • St. Barnabas Church celebrates its 150th anniversary with tour of the church and mansion
    June 14, 2019
    The 150th anniversary of St. Barnabas Church includes something special for the larger Omaha community: Free tours of both the timber-clad, English Herefordshire church and of the Renaissance Revival mansion down the street.
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  • Upcoming Ordinations
    May 7, 2019
    Ordinations of Armando Alejandro, Nathan Davis, Jon Jenkins, and Keith Way
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  • Father Carl Reid to lead the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross
    March 26, 2019
    It is my privilege and joy to share with you the happy news that our Holy Father, Pope Francis and has appointed our own Father Carl Reid as Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross in Australia.
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  • Seminarians Receive Ministry of Acolyte
    February 24, 2019
    Vatican City, the Most Reverend Steven J. Lopes, Bishop of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, conferred the Ministry of Acolyte during Mass in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, Pontifical North American College, Vatican City State to 43 seminarians.
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  • Beauty in Spoken Word and Ministerial Action
    February 20, 2019
    Bishop Lopes' Plenum Addresses at The 2019 Southwest Liturgical Conference
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  • Women’s Vocation Retreat
    January 25, 2019
    I stand at the door and knock: A Women’s Vocation Retreat (March 2, 2019 9:00-4:00) at The Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham
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  • Support our seminarians
    Support our seminarians
    April 16, 2018
    Will you help educate the young men who have responded to God's call to the priesthood?
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  • 2018 Chrism Mass Homily
    March 28, 2018
    by Most Rev. Steven J. Lopes, STD
    "We would do well, at this year’s Chrism Mass, to reflect more deeply on the great Sacrament of the Sick and the anointing which flows from the oil blessed tonight."
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  • Rev. Lucien Lindsey, 1938-2018
    Rev. Lucien Lindsey, 1938-2018
    March 15, 2018
    Read Bishop Steven J. Lopes' letter to Ordinariate clergy regarding Rev. Lucien D. Lindsey, a priest of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, who died March 14, 2018. Father Lucien was 80 years old.
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  • After Harvey, acts of mercy
    September 5, 2017
    Ordinariate communities work to support storm victims in Houston.
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  • Ordinariate clergy, staff and campus safe and dry
    Ordinariate clergy, staff and campus safe and dry
    August 29, 2017
    by Jenny Faber
    An update on Chancery employees, campus during the catastrophic flooding in Houston.
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  • Transitional deacon to be ordained on April 25
    Transitional deacon to be ordained on April 25
    April 22, 2017
    Our Lady and Saint John, a new Ordinariate Community in Louisville, KY, will soon have its first transitional deacon.
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  • Becoming One
    Becoming One
    March 21, 2017
    Our Lady of the Atonement joins the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter.
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  • Bishop Lopes' remarks: West Coast Walk for Life
    Bishop Lopes' remarks: West Coast Walk for Life
    January 21, 2017
    Click to read Bishop Lopes’ opening comments and invocation for the 13th annual West Coast Walk for Life, a rally and peaceful march for life in San Francisco.
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  • Thank you for supporting our seminarians
    January 10, 2017
    Bishop Steven J. Lopes offers his deepest gratitude to all the faithful and clergy of the Ordinariate for their support of the inaugural collection for the Seminary Formation Fund.
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