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

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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

charter school

Supreme Court deadlocks over proposed Oklahoma Catholic charter school

Kate Scanlon|May 22, 2025|4 Min Read

Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, Vatican foreign minister, shakes hands with U.S. Vice President JD Vance in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican May 19, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

USCIRF praises Pope Leo XIV for continuing Vatican's international religious freedom work

Kate Scanlon|May 19, 2025|2 Min Read

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House GOP budget proposal includes cuts to Medicaid, groups that perform abortions

Kate Scanlon|May 13, 2025|5 Min Read

A pro-life advocate holds a rosary and sign in this file photo from Nov. 3, 2019. Planned Parenthood released its new annual report for 2023-2024, their first covering a period of time after the Dobbs decision. (OSV News photo/Sam Lucero, The Compass)

Planned Parenthood annual report shows abortions, public funding up after Dobbs

Kate Scanlon|May 12, 2025|4 Min Read

U.S. President Donald Trump holds an executive order on prescription drug pricing next to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., during a news conference in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington May 12, 2025. (OSV News photo/Nathan Howard, Reuters)

Trump signs executive order demanding drug manufacturers lower US prices

Kate Scanlon|May 12, 2025|4 Min Read

A man holding a rosary and U.S. flag reacts as Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who has chosen the papal name Leo XIV, appears on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican May 8, 2025, following his election during the conclave. He is the first American pope in history. (OSV News photo/Dylan Martinez, Reuters)

Trump, US political leaders congratulate Pope Leo XIV: 'A great honor for our country'

Kate Scanlon|May 8, 2025|5 Min Read

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