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

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Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, N.M., (right) takes part in a demonstration in El Paso, Texas, against mass deportation alongside Bishop Peter Baldacchino of Las Cruces, N.M.; Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller of San Antonio and Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)

Catholic bishops join interfaith effort opposing Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'

Kate Scanlon|Jun 27, 2025|6 Min Read

Planned Parenthood

Supreme Court rules states can halt Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood

Kate Scanlon|Jun 26, 2025|3 Min Read

People participate in a demonstration sponsored by Sisters Speak Out about immigration and the economy, June 24, 2025 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (OSV News/Leslie E. Kossoff)

Catholic sisters protest Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' outside U.S. Capitol

Kate Scanlon|Jun 25, 2025|3 Min Read

People hold signs as the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments over an appeal by then-U.S. President Joe Biden's administration of a lower court's decision upholding a Republican-backed ban in Tennessee on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, in Washington Dec. 4, 2024. The nation's highest court on June 18, 2025, upheld the Tennessee state law. (OSV News photo/Benoit Tessier, Reuters)

Supreme Court upholds Tennessee's gender transition ban for minors

Kate Scanlon|Jun 18, 2025|4 Min Read

Members of the Native American coalition Apache Stronghold protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington Sept. 11, 2024, the day the coalition filed an appeal asking the high court to overturn a federal appeals court ruling allowing development of a copper mine in Oak Flat, Ariz., on a site Native Americans consider sacred. (OSV News photo/Piroschka van de Wouw, Reuters)

Religious Liberty Commission examines imperiled Native American sacred site, mandatory reporter law

Kate Scanlon|Jun 17, 2025|6 Min Read

A person walks past the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington Jan. 17, 2024. (OSV News photo/Leah Millis, Reuters)

Bishops urge lawmakers to protect Medicaid as Senate considers 'Big Beautiful Bill'

Kate Scanlon|Jun 10, 2025|2 Min Read

Washington

WA bishops ask court to block mandatory reporter law without Catholic confession protections

Kate Scanlon|Jun 6, 2025|4 Min Read

The U.S. Supreme Court is pictured in Washington June 29, 2024. On June 5, 2025, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Catholic Charities Bureau of the Diocese of Superior, Wis., which had asked the high court to overturn a decision by the Wisconsin Supreme Court the agency argued discounted its religious identity. (OSV News photo/Kevin Mohatt, Reuters)

Supreme Court rules in favor of Wisconsin Catholic agency over religious exemption

Kate Scanlon|Jun 6, 2025|3 Min Read

The Federal Bureau of Investigation seal is seen at FBI headquarters before a 2018 news conference in Washington. A GOP senator alleged that a controversial and retracted FBI memo that used "anti-Catholic terminology" had been distributed to over 1,000 FBI agents. (OSV News photo/Yuri Gripas, Reuters).

FBI memo with 'anti-Catholic terminology' said to be distributed to over 1,000 FBI agents

Kate Scanlon|Jun 4, 2025|3 Min Read

A migrant family is dropped off Dec. 13, 2022, at a local migrant shelter run by the Annunciation House in downtown El Paso, Texas. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sought to shut down the shelter, alleging among other things that the organization facilitates illegal border crossings. On May 30, 2025, the Texas Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling and said Paxton can move forward with his investigation into Annunciation House. (OSV News photo/Ivan Pierre Aguirre, Reuters)

Texas Supreme Court permits Paxton's Annunciation House probe to proceed

Kate Scanlon|May 30, 2025|2 Min Read

The Washington Capitol is pictured in Olympia April 11, 2020. Washington state's Catholic bishops filed a lawsuit May 29, 2025, over a new law that requires clergy to report child abuse or neglect but provides no exceptions for clergy-penitent privilege. (OSV News photo/Jason Redmond, Reuters)

WA bishops sue over mandatory reporter law's lack of Catholic confession protections

Kate Scanlon|May 29, 2025|5 Min Read

Members of Apache Stronghold protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington Sept. 11, 2024, the day the Native American-led coalition filed an appeal asking the high court to overturn a federal appeals court ruling allowing development of a copper mine in Oak Flat, Ariz., on a site Apache people consider sacred. The U.S. Supreme Court on May 27, 2025, rejected their appeal. (OSV News photo/Piroschka van de Wouw, Reuters)

Supreme Court rejects Indigenous coalition's appeal over mine's threat to sacred site

Kate Scanlon|May 27, 2025|3 Min Read

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