In 1867 Rivington left St. Clement's for All Saints, Margaret Street, London, where he attracted attention as a preacher.
Shortly after being professed, Sister Mary Christina died of typhoid fever, contracted while nursing at University College Hospital.
[2] Failing in his efforts to found a religious community at Stoke, Staffordshire, he joined the Cowley Fathers and became superior of their house in Bombay.
[1] Becoming unsettled in his religious convictions he visited Rome, where in 1888 he was received into the Catholic Church.
[1] In 1897, Pope Leo XIII conferred on him an honorary doctorate in divinity.