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

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The U.S. Capitol building in Washington Aug. 13, 2025. With Congress having returned from its August recess, a government shutdown looms at the end of September. (OSV News photo/Elizabeth Frantz, Reuters)

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Congress faces shutdown deadline as Catholic groups warn nation's poor at risk

Kate Scanlon|Sep 4, 2025|5 Min Read

A clergyman and others pray during a silent vigil protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement outside the U.S. immigration court in New York City, July 24, 2025. (OSV News photo/Jeenah Moon, Reuters)

ICE detentions in immigration courts prompt alarm from Catholic advocates

Kate Scanlon|Aug 25, 2025|4 Min Read

A monument of "God's Ten Commandments" is pictured in front of a church in Uvalde, Texas, June 1, 2022. A federal judge on Aug. 20, 2025, partially blocked Texas from enforcing a law requiring public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments, finding the law violated the First Amendment. (OSV News photo/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters)

Federal judge blocks Texas 10 Commandments law from being enforced in some school districts

Kate Scanlon|Aug 21, 2025|3 Min Read

The seal of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is seen at its headquarters in Washington May 14, 2021. The EEOC said Aug. 18, 2025, it has taken "robust" actions to prevent religious discrimination in the workplace, particularly on COVID-19 vaccine mandates, within the first six months of the second Trump administration. (OSV News photo/Andrew Kelly, Reuters)

EEOC says 'robust' religious liberty enforcement actions taken, including on vaccine mandates

Kate Scanlon|Aug 20, 2025|4 Min Read

Fathers Charles Gnanapragasam, right, and Thomas Pers participate in a "Keep Our Priests" rosary rally at St. Mary Church in East Islip, N.Y., April 29, 2024. More than 300 people gathered to pray for changes in U.S. immigration procedures to prioritize visa and green card applications for foreign-born religious workers, many of whom are being forced to leave the country because of federal delays in processing immigration paperwork. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Catholic advocates push Trump administration to address religious worker visa backlog

Kate Scanlon|Aug 15, 2025|5 Min Read

Members of the Little Sisters of the Poor sing during a National Eucharistic Pilgrimage Mass celebrated in English and Spanish at St. Frances Cabrini Shrine in the Upper Manhattan section of New York City May 25, 2024. A federal district court in Philadelphia on Aug. 13, 2025, issued a nationwide ruling against the Little Sisters of the Poor over the contraceptive mandate. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Judge blocks religious exemption to birth control coverage; Little Sisters of the Poor to appeal

Kate Scanlon|Aug 13, 2025|3 Min Read

A box containing a mifepristone tablet is pictured Feb. 28, 2023. A Texas woman sued a supplier of mifepristone and a former sexual partner in a lawsuit filed Aug. 11, 2025, in federal court., alleging the former partner spiked her drink with abortifacient drugs -- mifepristone and misoprostol -- without her knowledge, terminating her pregnancy without her consent. (OSV News photo/Callaghan O'Hare, Reuters)

Texas woman sues ex-partner, abortion pill provider, alleging she was given drugs without consent

Kate Scanlon|Aug 13, 2025|3 Min Read

The U.S. Capitol building in Washington June 27, 2025. (OSV New photo/Elizabeth Frantz, Reuters)

Amid shift in public opinion on immigration, Catholic advocates praise bipartisan attempt at reform

Kate Scanlon|Jul 30, 2025|5 Min Read

People check computers outside of a Planned Parenthood mobile clinic in Chicago Aug. 19, 2024. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani ruled July 28, 2025, that Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide must continue to be reimbursed for Medicaid funding despite recent passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill that included a provision stripping those funds for one year. Talwani's new ruling expanded her previous injunction. (OSV News photo/Vincent Alban, Reuters)

Federal judge blocks Planned Parenthood defunding indefinitely

Kate Scanlon|Jul 28, 2025|3 Min Read

A volunteer stands in front of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Boston, Massachusetts, June 28, 2014. (OSV News/Dominick Reuter, Reuters)

Judge keeps Planned Parenthood funding for now while lawsuit continues

Kate Scanlon|Jul 23, 2025|3 Min Read

A box containing a mifepristone tablet is pictured in a Feb. 28, 2023, photo. (OSV News/Callaghan O'Hare, Reuters)

West Virginia ban on mifepristone's use in abortion upheld by federal court

Kate Scanlon|Jul 17, 2025|5 Min Read

In this file photo, Kino Teens volunteers are pictured serving dinner to recently deported migrants in the kitchen and dining hall of Centro de Atención al Migrante Deportado (Aid Center for Deported Migrants) in Nogales, in the Mexican state of Sonora. (OSV News photo/Nancy Wiechec)

Top Republican appears to walk back probe of Catholic entities amid charged committee hearing

Kate Scanlon|Jul 16, 2025|5 Min Read

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