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

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U.S. Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., applaud as President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington March 4, 2025. (OSV News photo/Win McNamee, Reuters)

President touts 'swift and unrelenting action' on immigration, gender policy in speech to Congress

Kate Scanlon|Mar 5, 2025|4 Min Read

U.S. Vice President JD Vance speaks during the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington Feb. 27, 2025. (OSV News photo/Gary Gellman, courtesy National Catholic Prayer Breakfast)

Vance 'surprised' by pope's criticism, prays for his recovery

Kate Scanlon|Feb 28, 2025|6 Min Read

Protesters opposing possible Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in public schools chant outside the State Department of Education in Oklahoma City Jan. 28, 2025, during their monthly board meeting. (OSV News photo/Nick Oxford, Reuters)

Faith groups sue over Trump administration policy to permit ICE arrests at churches

Kate Scanlon|Feb 11, 2025|3 Min Read

U.S. Sen. Bob Morris, R-Ind., is pictured in an undated photo. Morris is pushing to abolish the death penalty and an Ohio anti-death bill are some of the signs of pushback against capital punishment in the Midwest. (OSV News/courtesy Indiana House Republicans)

Despite Trump's position, some red states are still trying to repeal the death penalty

Kate Scanlon|Feb 10, 2025|5 Min Read

The headquarters of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is seen in Washington in this file photo. The USCCB announced Feb. 7, 2025, it will lay off a third of its migration staff after President Donald Trump's suspension of refugee resettlement program. (OSV News photo/Tyler Orsburn, CNS file)

USCCB lays off a third of migration staff after suspension of refugee resettlement program

Kate Scanlon|Feb 7, 2025|4 Min Read

A boy is seen in a file photo with relief goods at a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) distribution center in Gaza City. The future of USAID has been called into question amid reports President Donald Trump had agreed to "shut down" the agency, which could have dramatic impacts on the poor and the groups assisting them. (OSV News photo/Shareef Sarhan, for Catholic Relief Services)

Future of USAID unclear as concern mounts over agency's ongoing tumult

Kate Scanlon|Feb 6, 2025|5 Min Read

People hold signs as the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington hears arguments Dec. 4, 2024, over an appeal by 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. (OSV News photo/Benoit Tessier, Reuters)

Trump signs executive order to prohibit gender transition procedures for minors

Kate Scanlon|Jan 28, 2025|2 Min Read

People take cellphone photos as U.S. President Donald Trump is projected on a screen during the 52nd annual March for Life rally in Washington Jan. 24, 2025. That day, Trump used his executive authority to signed to measures to prevent the use of U.S. public funding for abortion at home and overseas. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller).

President bars taxpayer funding for abortion in the U.S. or overseas

Kate Scanlon|Jan 26, 2025|3 Min Read

U.S. President Donald Trump signs documents in the Oval Office at the White House on Inauguration Day in Washington Jan. 20, 2025. He signed a series of executive orders including on immigration, birthright citizenship and climate. Trump also signed an order directing the U.S. government to only recognize two sexes, male and female. (OSV News photo/Carlos Barria, Reuters)

USCCB president calls Trump orders on migration, death penalty 'deeply troubling'

Kate Scanlon|Jan 22, 2025|3 Min Read

Migrant farmworkers attend an outdoor Mass Sept. 26, 2019, in Hatch, N.M. The Trump administration said Jan. 21, 2025, that it would rescind a long-standing policy preventing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from making arrests at what are seen as sensitive locations, including houses of worship, schools and hospitals. (OSV News photo/Tyler Orsburn)

Trump administration reverses policy to permit ICE arrests at churches

Kate Scanlon|Jan 21, 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. The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments Jan. 13, 2025, in the state's attorney general's case against Annunciation House, which has been helping immigrants at the U.S.-Texas border. (OSV News photo/Ivan Pierre Aguirre, Reuters)

Texas Supreme Court hears arguments in AG's attempt to shut down Catholic ministry to migrants

Kate Scanlon|Jan 14, 2025|3 Min Read

Pope Francis greets U.S. President Joe Biden June 14, 2024, before the pontiff gave a speech to world leaders at the Group of Seven summit in Borgo Egnazia in Italy's southern Puglia region. On Jan. 11, 2025, Biden spoke with the pope from the White House in Washington and named him as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction. Biden had been scheduled to have an audience with the pope during a Jan. 9-12 trip to Rome but the president canceled the trip to amid the California wildfires. (CNS photo/courtesy of G7 Italia 2024)

Biden awards pope Presidential Medal of Freedom, nation's highest civilian honor

Kate Scanlon|Jan 11, 2025|2 Min Read

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