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

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A file photo shows Dominican postulant Anna Harper, a native of Baton Rouge, La., and Dominican Sister Carmela Marie, a native of Hinatuan, Philippines, visit with patient Edna MacCready at Rosary Hill Home in Hawthorne, N.Y. Four orders of women religious and Catholic healthcare ministries filed suit in federal court in Albany July 17, 2026, arguing that New York’s new assisted dying law would force them to choose between their faith and their ability to provide care for the sick, the elderly, and the dying. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Four religious orders challenge NY law on physician-assisted death

Kate Scanlon|Jul 20, 2026|3 Min Read

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche looks on as U.S. President Donald Trump receives the report from his Religious Liberty Commission in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington June 26, 2026. Ahead of a July 15 Senate hearing to confirm Blanche as head of the DOJ, a national pro-life group asked Blanche to side with Louisiana in its challenge to a federal policy permitting mifepristone, sometimes called the abortion pill, to be dispensed through the mail. (OSV News photo/Ken Cedeno, Reuters)

Pro-life group urges Blanche to back states' mifepristone challenge

Kate Scanlon|Jul 9, 2026|4 Min Read

Planned Parenthood employees stand outside the facility during protests in St. Louis May 31, 2019. Federal funding for Planned Parenthood resumed July 5, 2026, after a provision of the One Big Beautiful Bill prohibiting those funds expired on Independence Day. (OSV News photo/Lawrence Bryant, Reuters)

Planned Parenthood regains Medicaid funds as "Big Beautiful Bill" provision lapses

Kate Scanlon|Jul 6, 2026|3 Min Read

Ezra Jin Mingri, founder and pastor of an underground church in China and a prisoner of conscience in that country until his release, is pictured in a 2018 file photo in Beijing. Mingri arrived in Los Angeles July 3, 2026, after he was released from imprisonment and reunited with his family in the U.S. shortly before Independence Day, U.S. officials said. (OSV News photo/Thomas Peter, Reuters)

World

Detained Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri released by China, now in US

Kate Scanlon|Jul 6, 2026|3 Min Read

The U.S. Supreme Court building is pictured in Washington June 24, 2024. (OSV News photo/Nathan Howard, Reuters)

Catholic leaders hail Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling as a 'victory for human dignity'

Kate Scanlon|Jun 30, 2026|6 Min Read

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as the Department of Justice's Religious Liberty Commission presents a draft of its report to him in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, June 26, 2026. (OSV News photo/Ken Cedeno, Reuters)

Religious Liberty Commission presents draft report to President Trump

Kate Scanlon|Jun 26, 2026|4 Min Read

Pro-life demonstrators celebrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington June 24, 2022, as the court ruled in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization abortion case, overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. On the fourth anniversary of the Dobbs decision June 24, 2026, the U.S. bishops' pro-life chair and pro-life leaders pointed to abortion pills as among key challenges for protecting the lives of unborn children. (OSV News photo/Evelyn Hockstein, Reuters)

On Dobbs anniversary, bishops warn abortion pills threaten to undo pro-life victory

Kate Scanlon|Jun 24, 2026|6 Min Read

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin testifies before a Senate Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington June 2, 2026. Mullin testified before Congress as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a letter June 1 to the top senators on the Committee on Appropriations urging key policy reforms aimed at protecting the dignity of migrants. (OSV News photo/Evan Vucci, Reuters)

DHS chief pushes for more immigration enforcement funds as US bishops urge key reforms

Kate Scanlon|Jun 2, 2026|3 Min Read

A file photo shows a woman working while she was 8 months pregnant at a store in Jerome, Idaho. Fifty Republican members of Congress have filed an amicus brief in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals supporting the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in their lawsuit against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) over abortion-related regulations imposed on the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. (OSV News photo/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters)

Lawmakers back US bishops' bid to block abortion from pregnant worker protection rules

Kate Scanlon|May 28, 2026|2 Min Read

An undated photo shows straps on an execution table. (OSV News photo/courtesy Florida Department of Corrections)

World

Global executions surge to highest recorded figure in 44 years, Amnesty International report says

Kate Scanlon|May 18, 2026|3 Min Read

Bishop Robert E. Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, a member of the U.S. Religious Liberty Commission, speaks at the Rededicate 250: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving event at the National Mall in Washington, May 17, 2026. (OSV News screenshot)

America 250 occasion to reflect on equality as a God-given right, Bishop Barron says

Kate Scanlon|May 17, 2026|4 Min Read

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents check the identity document of an agricultural worker at a grocery store parking lot during an immigration raid in Mecca, Calif., Dec. 19, 2025. According to a new economic study released in early May 2026, the Trump administration's mass deportation efforts could have a significant chilling effect on the economy and the labor market, including for U.S.-born workers. (OSV News photo/Daniel Cole, Reuters)

Study: Mass deportation has 'chilling' effect on labor market for immigrant, US-citizen workers

Kate Scanlon|May 15, 2026|4 Min Read

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