Dwayne David Paul

Dwayne David Paul is the co-founder of Religion in Revolt, a digital platform that aims to develop and promote the liberation work of faith communities.

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Cereal and other products are pictured at a supermarket. Congress appropriates funds annually for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, or WIC. As Dwayne David Paul writes, this year the funding proposals in the House and Senate fail to meet projected participation levels. (Unsplash/Franki Chamaki)

WIC is in danger. Do Catholics care?

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.

Homeless men in 2019 are seen outside their tents under a bridge in Austin, Texas.

The crisis of unhoused older Americans is acute. Policy can be the answer.

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. 

A delivery man bikes with a food bag from Grubhub on April 21, 2021, in New York. Uber Eats, DoorDash and Grubhub sued New York City on July 6, 2023, to block its new minimum pay rules for food delivery workers. (AP/Mark Lennihan, File)

The gig economy is central in the fight for workers' rights

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.

Collaborative Center for Justice staff and volunteers rally for climate justice at the Connecticut state capitol in 2019. (Courtesy of Dwayne David Paul)

To advance climate action, enter political fray and center working-class people

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. 

Military tank on top of $100 bills (Dreamstime/Michael Nesterov)

Why Catholics should oppose massive increases in defense spending

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.

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, makes his way through a crowd of Capitol Hill reporters outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington Sept. 30, 2021. (CNS/Reuters/Leah Millis)

Manchin should remember his working-class West Virginia constituents

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.

A woman walks past police officers in the Brooklyn borough of New York City Oct. 14, 2020. (CNS/Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)

So-called community policing perpetuates a throwaway culture

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.

A person in a mask with lights spelling out at least the word "police" stands outside the site of the 2020 vice presidential debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris on the campus of the Universi

Prisons and law enforcement are not the solution to our social problems

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.

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