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

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Boxes of mifepristone under the label Mifeprex are seen April 9, 2024, at Alamo Women's Clinic in Carbondale, Ill. An appeals court on May 1, 2026, temporarily blocked a federal policy permitting mifepristone, sometimes called the abortion pill, to be dispensed through the mail. (OSV News photo/Evelyn Hockstein, via Reuters)

Supreme Court hits brakes on court ruling that blocked abortion pill distribution by mail

Kate Scanlon|May 4, 2026|2 Min Read

Children hold candles during the Easter Vigil Mass at a church in Xiaohan village of Tianjin municipality in China in 2009. (CNS photo/Vincent Du, Reuters)

USCIRF hearing: Children 'bear the brunt' of international religious freedom violations

Kate Scanlon|Apr 30, 2026|3 Min Read

A sign for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington is seen in this April 6, 2026, file photo. (OSV News photo/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters)

DOJ accuses Biden administration of anti-Christian bias in new report

Kate Scanlon|Apr 30, 2026|4 Min Read

Immigrants' rights activists and demonstrators attend a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington April 29, 2026, as justices hear arguments on whether the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump can end the Temporary Protected Status of Syrian and Haitian nationals. (OSV News photo/Nathan Howard, Reuters)

Supreme Court hears arguments in Trump effort to end temporary protections for Haitians, Syrians

Kate Scanlon|Apr 29, 2026|4 Min Read

A U.S. flag flutters outside the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington March 14, 2026. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled April 29 that a group of faith-based pregnancy centers in New Jersey can challenge in federal court an investigation by that state's attorney general alleging they misled people about their services and seeking information about their donors. (OSV News photo/Will Dunham, Reuters)

Supreme Court rules New Jersey pregnancy centers can challenge state probe in federal court

Kate Scanlon|Apr 29, 2026|3 Min Read

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., look on as Britain's King Charles III addresses members of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington April 28, 2026. He became the first British monarch to address the Congress since his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in 1991. (OSV News photo/Elizabeth Frantz, Reuters)

King Charles invokes faith, 'shared values' as he calls for peace in address to Congress

Kate Scanlon|Apr 28, 2026|4 Min Read

Members of Apache Stronghold protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington Sept. 11, 2024. An Indigenous coalition filed an updated lawsuit in federal district court on April 22, 2026, their latest attempt to stop a land transfer including their sacred site at Oak Flat, Ariz., from destruction by a copper mining giant. (OSV News photo/Piroschka van de Wouw, Reuters)

Indigenous coalition continues challenge to mining project on religious liberty grounds

Kate Scanlon|Apr 23, 2026|4 Min Read

A monument of the Ten Commandments is pictured in front of a church in Uvalde, Texas, June 1, 2022. (OSV News/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters)

US appeals court allows Texas schools to display Ten Commandments

Kate Scanlon|Apr 22, 2026|4 Min Read

The U.S. Supreme Court is pictured in Washington March 14, 2026. The nation's highest court has taken up the St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy case that could decide whether Colorado can exclude Catholic families from a "universal" preschool program. (OSV News photo/Will Dunham, Reuters)

Supreme Court to hear clash between Catholic preschools, Colorado over 'universal' program

Kate Scanlon|Apr 20, 2026|2 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV meets with U.S. Vice President JD Vance in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican May 19, 2025. Shortly after Vance appeared to warn Pope Leo XIV to "be careful" when speaking about theology and taking issue with his description of the U.S. conflict in Iran as unjust, a key U.S. bishop issued a statement clarifying the Church's teaching on just war theory. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

US bishops' doctrine chair defends Church's just war tradition after Vance comments

Kate Scanlon|Apr 15, 2026|5 Min Read

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington April 6, 2026. Trump lashed out at Pope Leo XIV on social media and in a verbal interview April 12, calling him "weak on crime" and "terrible for foreign policy," as tensions escalate in the Mideast. (OSV News photo/Evan Vucci, Reuters)

President Trump lashes out at Pope Leo amid Iran war rebuke

Kate Scanlon|Apr 13, 2026|4 Min Read

A box containing a mifepristone tablet is pictured in a Feb. 28, 2023, photo. A federal judge on April 7, 2026, paused Louisiana's lawsuit challenging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of mifepristone pending its promised safety review. But indicated the state could continue its challenge after that review. (OSV News)

Judge pauses state's abortion pill lawsuit until FDA completes timely safety review

Kate Scanlon|Apr 8, 2026|5 Min Read

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