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In September 2022, parishioners at Denver's St. Ignatius Loyola Parish learned that the Jesuits would be leaving their parish after almost 100 years of service. In NCR interviews, the now former Jesuit pastor and several parishioners looked back on a difficult year of change.

Russian occupiers launched an attack Aug. 22 on St. Teresa of the Child of Jesus Roman Catholic Church in the town of Skadovsk, located in the Kherson region in eastern Ukraine, Bishop Stanislav Szyrokoradiuk of Odessa-Simferopol confirmed on Facebook.

An Australian court on August 25 allowed a civil case to proceed against a Catholic archdiocese involving child sex abuse allegations against late Cardinal George Pell.

A former U.S. bishop cleared by the Vatican of multiple allegations he sexually abused minors and teenagers, after a review board under his diocese in Wyoming found that allegations against him were credible, has died.

The Paulist Fathers' vice president has resigned after he confirmed a woman's report in early August that he made an unwelcome sexual advance toward her. 

Ahead of major meetings of world leaders in September, such as the Africa Climate Summit, the G20 New Delhi Summit and the 78th session of the U.N. General Assembly, Catholic bishops and faith leaders in Africa are calling for debt relief for the continent to give Africa a "life line" to escape the multiple crises plaguing its population.

Nicaragua’s government on August 23 declared the Jesuit religious order illegal and ordered the confiscation of all its property.

Bishop Joseph Strickland, the firebrand Catholic prelate from Tyler, Texas, claims in a new letter that an "evil and false message" has "invaded" the global Catholic Church.