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

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Volunteers serve meals to guests at Catholic Charities’ St. Maria’s Meals program Aug. 20, 2025. Every Wednesday afternoon outside Catholic Charities headquarters in Washington, the St. Maria’s Meals program serves hot and nutritious meals to people experiencing homelessness or food insecurity. Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington has expanded its homeless shelter capacity in the District of Columbia as homeless encampments are being removed across the nation’s capital. (OSV News photo/courtesy of Catholic Charities)

Catholic groups serving the poor call for action to end federal government shut down

Kate Scanlon|Oct 1, 2025|6 Min Read

U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington Sept. 19, 2025. Trump signed two executive orders, one to establish a visa program overseen by the secretary of commerce called the "Trump Gold Card" and one to introduce a $100,000 fee for H-1B visas. (OSV News photo/Ken Cedeno, Reuters)

Catholic immigration advocates express concern about new $100,000 H-1B visa fee

Kate Scanlon|Sep 22, 2025|2 Min Read

Young women pray as thousands gather at a memorial service for slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., Sept. 21, 2025. Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, was fatally shot Sept. 10 during an event at Utah Valley University in Orem. (OSV News photo/Cheney Orr, Reuters)

Charlie Kirk's widow forgives shooter at memorial attended by Trump, Bishop Barron

Kate Scanlon|Sep 21, 2025|4 Min Read

A police mugshot released Sept. 12, 2025, shows Tyler Robinson, the suspect in the fatal shooting of U.S. conservative commentator Charlie Kirk during an event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, Sept. 10. (OSV News/Utah Department of Public Safety handout via Reuters)

Suspect in Charlie Kirk shooting in custody as leaders urge end to political violence

Kate Scanlon|Sep 12, 2025|4 Min Read

Commentator Charlie Kirk appears at a Utah Valley University speaking event in Orem, Utah, Sept. 10, 2025. (OSV News photo/Trent Nelson, The Salt Lake Tribune via Reuters)

Bishops, officials call for prayer after conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed

Kate Scanlon|Sep 10, 2025|4 Min Read

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks to the Department of Justice's Religious Liberty Commission at the Museum of the Bible in Washington Sept. 8, 2025. (OSV News photo/Evelyn Hockstein, Reuters)

Department of Education to issue guidance on protecting prayer in public schools

Kate Scanlon|Sep 8, 2025|5 Min Read

The U.S. Capitol building in Washington Aug. 13, 2025. With Congress having returned from its August recess, a government shutdown looms at the end of September. (OSV News photo/Elizabeth Frantz, Reuters)

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Congress faces shutdown deadline as Catholic groups warn nation's poor at risk

Kate Scanlon|Sep 4, 2025|4 Min Read

A clergyman and others pray during a silent vigil protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement outside the U.S. immigration court in New York City, July 24, 2025. (OSV News photo/Jeenah Moon, Reuters)

ICE detentions in immigration courts prompt alarm from Catholic advocates

Kate Scanlon|Aug 25, 2025|4 Min Read

A monument of "God's Ten Commandments" is pictured in front of a church in Uvalde, Texas, June 1, 2022. A federal judge on Aug. 20, 2025, partially blocked Texas from enforcing a law requiring public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments, finding the law violated the First Amendment. (OSV News photo/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters)

Federal judge blocks Texas 10 Commandments law from being enforced in some school districts

Kate Scanlon|Aug 21, 2025|3 Min Read

The seal of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is seen at its headquarters in Washington May 14, 2021. The EEOC said Aug. 18, 2025, it has taken "robust" actions to prevent religious discrimination in the workplace, particularly on COVID-19 vaccine mandates, within the first six months of the second Trump administration. (OSV News photo/Andrew Kelly, Reuters)

EEOC says 'robust' religious liberty enforcement actions taken, including on vaccine mandates

Kate Scanlon|Aug 20, 2025|3 Min Read

Fathers Charles Gnanapragasam, right, and Thomas Pers participate in a "Keep Our Priests" rosary rally at St. Mary Church in East Islip, N.Y., April 29, 2024. More than 300 people gathered to pray for changes in U.S. immigration procedures to prioritize visa and green card applications for foreign-born religious workers, many of whom are being forced to leave the country because of federal delays in processing immigration paperwork. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Catholic advocates push Trump administration to address religious worker visa backlog

Kate Scanlon|Aug 15, 2025|5 Min Read

Members of the Little Sisters of the Poor sing during a National Eucharistic Pilgrimage Mass celebrated in English and Spanish at St. Frances Cabrini Shrine in the Upper Manhattan section of New York City May 25, 2024. A federal district court in Philadelphia on Aug. 13, 2025, issued a nationwide ruling against the Little Sisters of the Poor over the contraceptive mandate. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Judge blocks religious exemption to birth control coverage; Little Sisters of the Poor to appeal

Kate Scanlon|Aug 13, 2025|3 Min Read

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