by St. John Barned-Smith & Allan Turner | Houston Chronicle
"Days before the Catholic Church announced Steven Lopes' impending appointment as bishop, the 40-year-old cleric had a brief conversation with Pope Francis..."
"At the level of style, Pope Francis is obviously a somewhat jarring contrast with his predecessor, emeritus Pope Benedict XVI. Francis generally comes off as a warm Latin populist, Benedict more a cool German intellectual ..."
by By Michael O'Loughlin | Boston Globe/cruxnow.com
"Pope Francis has given a group of breakaway North American Anglicans who joined the Catholic Church en masse a new leader, naming the first bishop to lead the small but growing movement within US Catholicism..."
by By Peter Jesserer Smith | National Catholic Register
"Catholics of Anglican heritage are getting an early Christmas present from Pope Francis: The Holy Father has appointed the first Catholic bishop ever to lead..."
by By David Murphy | ordinariateexpats.wordpress.com
"At 12 noon today, CST, I was able to take part in a telephone press conference with the Ordinariate Chancery in Houston, at which Monsignor Jeffrey Steenson introduced the newly appointed Bishop-elect Steven Lopes..."
"The first inkling that there was anything afoot at the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter came Tuesday morning when an email popped up stating: "'Pope Francis Names First Bishop to Lead Catholics Nurtured in the Anglican Tradition ...'"
"Pleasing Baltimore-area Catholic priests who were formerly Anglican, Pope Francis has named Monsignor Steven J. Lopes as the first bishop of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter. Based in Texas, the ordinariate serves former Anglicans in the United States and Canada ..."