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

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A file photo shows boxes of mifepristone, the first pill given in a medication abortion, prepared for patients at Women's Reproductive Clinic of New Mexico in Santa Teresa. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, said in a report published Aug. 27, 2026, that while the FDA should reinstate the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone, its sponsors may not be "currently meeting their legal responsibilities to ensure compliance" with remaining requirements. (OSV News photo/Evelyn Hockstein, Reuters)

Cassidy report: Abortion pill makers may not be meeting legal requirements

Kate Scanlon|Aug 28, 2026|4 Min Read

A file photo shows a teenage girl from El Salvador being embraced by a family friend before leaving Vive La Case refugee center with her family in Buffalo, N.Y., to file a claim with customs officials at the U.S.-Canadian border to remain in the United States. Hundreds of faith leaders and organizations urged the Trump administration to extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvador before it expires in September 2026. (OSV News photo/Chris Helgren, Reuters)

Over 270 faith groups, bishops urge renewal of El Salvador protected status

Kate Scanlon|Aug 25, 2026|3 Min Read

A file photo shows students at Cardinal Gibbons High School in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., receiving Communion during a Mass and rally for the opening of the school year. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sent a letter July 31, 2026, to the Catholic bishops of Florida demanding that Catholic schools in the Sunshine State adopt religious exemptions to vaccine requirements or risk their ability to participate in the state's school voucher program. (OSV News photo/Tom Tracy)

Florida AG threatens Catholic schools' voucher funding over vaccine rule

Kate Scanlon|Aug 3, 2026|4 Min Read

A file photo shows an asylum-seeking migrant family from Haiti cross the Rio Bravo to turn themselves in to U.S Border Patrol agents to request asylum in El Paso, Texas, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, April 22, 2022. (OSV News photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters)

Catholic groups warn new asylum rule puts applicants at deportation risk

Kate Scanlon|Jul 31, 2026|5 Min Read

James Duckett, who was convicted of raping and drowning an 11-year-old girl in 1987 while working as a police officer in a small central Florida city, and Dominick Anthony Occhicone, Jr., convicted for a 1986 double murder, were executed July 28, 2026, at the Florida State Prison in Starke. Florida last carried out a double execution on May 12, 1964. (OSV News photo/Florida Department of Corrections)

Catholic bishops urge reflection as Florida carries out double execution

Kate Scanlon|Jul 29, 2026|4 Min Read

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche testifes before a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination to be attorney general on Capitol Hill in Washington July 15, 2026. Blanche issued updated guidance July 23 on federal protections for religious liberty. (OSV News photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters)

DOJ issues updated religious liberty guidance, citing key Supreme Court rulings

Kate Scanlon|Jul 23, 2026|3 Min Read

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

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