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Kate Scanlon

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Kate Scanlon is the National Reporter (D.C.) for OSV News.

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A guard tower at the former San Quentin State Prison in California

Bishops, Catholic groups praise Newsom for commuting all of California's death sentences

Kate Scanlon|Nov 6, 2026|4 Min Read

Sister Anne Carrabino visits with a girl at a shelter for migrants and asylum-seekers in Mexicali, Mexico

Interfaith migration policy summit seeks common ground on welcoming the stranger

Kate Scanlon|Nov 5, 2026|4 Min Read

A person votes at a polling station

Undecided Catholic voters are true swing bloc, report says

Kate Scanlon|Oct 28, 2026|3 Min Read

Denver Archbishop James R. Golka

Bishops say prayer over president wasn’t meant to be political, regret fallout

Kate Scanlon|Oct 26, 2026|8 Min Read

U.S. bishops pray over President Donald Trump in the Oval Office

Catholic bishops pray over president during Oval Office meeting on Oct. 22

Kate Scanlon|Oct 23, 2026|5 Min Read

20261021 T1228 USCCB DOJ DISABILITIES LETTER 1828486

Catholic leaders urge Congress to protect disability rights after DOJ guidance

Kate Scanlon|Oct 21, 2026|4 Min Read

A woman stands at a site of her in-laws' house on the outskirts of Dnipro, Ukraine, Oct. 19, 2026, that was destroyed in a Russian airstrike. (OSV News photo/Reuters)

TPS for Ukraine, Sudan extended for now, but uncertainty remains

Kate Scanlon|Oct 19, 2026|3 Min Read

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he prepares to board Air Force One in Missoula, Mont., Oct. 14, 2026. (OSV News/Evan Vucci, Reuters)

Trump calls off plan to livestream firing squad execution amid outcry

Kate Scanlon|Oct 15, 2026|3 Min Read

A lone protester looks on as Fisher Sand & Gravel construction crews build the US-Mexico border fence in Lochiel, Ariz., Oct. 8, 2026. (OSV News photo/Rebecca Noble, Reuters)

Catholic and evangelical leaders issue joint statement calling for compassionate immigration reform

Kate Scanlon|Oct 14, 2026|4 Min Read

Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, gestures during a news briefing during a June 10, 2026, session of the annual spring meeting of the USCCB in Orlando, Fla. After Pentagon officials said they planned to livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad in December, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops denounced the plan as "barbaric” in an Oct. 9 statement. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)

Archbishop Coakley calls planned livestream of firing squad execution ‘barbaric’

Kate Scanlon|Oct 9, 2026|4 Min Read

The Ste. Genevieve County Sheriff's Office and Detention Center also serves as an ICE detention center. The Archdiocese of St. Louis filed a federal lawsuit Oct. 5, 2026, over a no-contact policy that prohibits priests from distributing holy Communion and hearing confessions in the detention center. (OSV News/Jacob Wiegand, St. Louis Review)

St. Louis archdiocese sues ICE over Communion, confessions for detainees

Kate Scanlon|Oct 7, 2026|4 Min Read

Supreme Court Bar members wait to be first in line for the first day of the US Supreme Court's new term in Washington Oct. 5, 2026. (OSV News photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters)

Supreme Court opens new term with cases on guns, immigration and religious liberty

Kate Scanlon|Oct 5, 2026|6 Min Read

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