Due to his writings and his work as archivist at the Venerable English College, Rome, he was well known in his lifetime, particularly within Church circles but as a radical traditionalist he has been forgotten in modern times.

His positions as a priest included Chester St Werburgh 1915–17, Crewe 1917–18, Plowden, Shropshire 1918–24, Market Drayton 1924–25, chaplain Mawley Hall (near Cleobury Mortimer) 1925–37.

[8] His tenure in Rome was interrupted by the Second World War, during which he served as chaplain at Albrighton Hall, Shrewsbury 1940–44 to the Convent of the Sacred Heart, evacuated from Tunbridge Wells.

Back in England, he settled at the Carmelite Monastery, Quidenham, Norfolk, where his sister Margaret Agnes Rope, stained-glass artist had died some four years previously.

A man of strong traditionalist opinions, an advocate of Distributism, an enemy of mechanisation and, above all, the motor car, his writings are a prolonged elegy for the ways of the past, and an elevation of time-honoured forms of Catholic faith and worship.

A typical article available online is "Martyrs and Markets"[12] Articles in The Month included Unfounded Optimism,[13] The Fallacy of Reunion,[14] Tolerance[15] In Praise of Papal Rome,[16] The Balm of Solitude,[17] Is Anglo-Catholicism near The Church?,[18] La Terre Qui Meurt,[19] Compromise no Charity,[20] The Limitations of Richard Cobden,[21] Elizabethan Continuity: Bishop Tunstall's Confession of the Faith,[22] The Theory of Progress,[23] Jewel: an Early Exponent of Anglicanism.

In prefacing it, Rope stated that he hoped the biography would serve as "small effort in reparation" for the fact that few British Catholics (himself included) had listened to Benedict's message of peace during the Great War.