Dwayne David Paul

Wage theft — including but not limited to cutting breaks short, refusing to pay overtime and confiscating tips — can and must be curtailed by union organizing, the centerpiece of modern Catholic teaching on labor.

While it is too early to measure the outcomes of the program for Minnesota students, we know that publicly funding school meals is effective policy worthy of Catholics getting behind at the national level.

A National Tenants Bill of Rights would finally correct the long-standing legal power imbalance between landlords and tenants in order to improve access to dignified, stable housing.

For Catholics, the massive investments into police training facilities across the United States raise questions about how our governments are aligning resources to meet the needs of the vulnerable — or not.

If Congress doesn't act, 600,000 mothers, infants and small children are at risk of being waitlisted or removed from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, by Nov. 17. Catholics must show up for this issue.

Older Americans are currently experiencing housing insecurity and homelessness at rates not seen in decades; in fact, people 65 and older are the fastest growing population of unhoused people in the U.S. 

The gig economy is the site of a crucial battle in the fight for workers' rights, writes Dwayne David Paul. In their struggles for justice, workers fighting against unnecessary precarity enrich our Catholic tradition.

People of faith have to build upon the person-by-person, institution-by-institution engagement with environmental issues by further entering the fray of politics. 

As Catholic social teaching and Pope Francis remind us, excessive militarism is incompatible with peacemaking and human flourishing. So why is the U.S. upping military spending by $80 billion? asks Dwayne David Paul.

Commentary: Democrats could use the gulf between the interests of Sen. Joe Manchin and his donors and those of working-class West Virginians to rein in his obstruction on the budget reconciliation bill.

Commentary: The community policing model, recycled by politicians like Joe Biden for decades, promotes a dangerous vision of community that further marginalizes already vulnerable and overpoliced communities.

Commentary: America's catastrophic responses to the coronavirus pandemic and to racial justice protests have made plain for many the effects of a 40-year project that began in the early 1980s.