[3] His next sermon, which preached the doctrine of transubstantiation, and "added in energetic terms that everyone was an unbeliever, carnal, and so forth, who did not hold it",[4] earned him an admonition from the university vice-chancellor.
His views on fasting and celibacy, explained in a letter of 1840 to his close friend F. W. Faber, earned him the nickname "Simeon Stylites".
[5] It was little surprise when Morris was received into the Catholic Church on 16 January 1846, resigning his Oxford fellowship a few days later.
He soon began parish work and for the next nineteen years ministered in Plymouth, Shortwood (Somerset) and other parts of England.
[5] In 1870, he became spiritual director of a Hammersmith community of nursing nuns, the Soeurs de Miséricorde, a post he occupied until his death on 9 April 1880.