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National Catholic Prayer Breakfast honors the U.S. legal expert, highlighting her ‘work on pro-life issues and the broader public discourse on polarizing social issues that not only divide the American electorate, but U.S. Catholics, as well.’
WASHINGTON — When the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast honors Helen Alvaré with its annual Christifideles Laici Award on Feb. 8, the pro-life legal scholar and speaker will deliver some hard truths to her Beltway audience.
Given the headwinds facing the Catholic Church and the pro-life movement, Alvaré told the Register, lay Catholics “can’t leave the challenge of communicating the faith to the professionals. To repeat that famous line: ‘You have to give a reason for the hope that is in you’” (1 Peter 3:15).
Alvaré has sought to live this teaching in her own life and work as a go-to legal expert who has advised the U.S. bishops and the Vatican. At present, she holds the Robert A. Levy Endowed Chair in Law and Liberty at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University in Virginia. She previously served for 13 years at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, initially in the Office of General Counsel and then at the Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities.
The National Catholic Prayer Breakfast “was established in response to St. John Paul the Great’s call for a New Evangelization, and Helen, who gave an extraordinary speech at our 2013 breakfast, has demonstrated a fearless commitment to the faith in her personal and professional life,” Mark Randall, director and chairman of the event, told the Register.
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WASHINGTON — When the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast honors Helen Alvaré with its annual Christifideles Laici Award on Feb. 8, the pro-life legal scholar and speaker will deliver some hard truths to her Beltway audience.
Given the headwinds facing the Catholic Church and the pro-life movement, Alvaré told the Register, lay Catholics “can’t leave the challenge of communicating the faith to the professionals. To repeat that famous line: ‘You have to give a reason for the hope that is in you’” (1 Peter 3:15).
Alvaré has sought to live this teaching in her own life and work as a go-to legal expert who has advised the U.S. bishops and the Vatican. At present, she holds the Robert A. Levy Endowed Chair in Law and Liberty at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University in Virginia. She previously served for 13 years at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, initially in the Office of General Counsel and then at the Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities.
The National Catholic Prayer Breakfast “was established in response to St. John Paul the Great’s call for a New Evangelization, and Helen, who gave an extraordinary speech at our 2013 breakfast, has demonstrated a fearless commitment to the faith in her personal and professional life,” Mark Randall, director and chairman of the event, told the Register.
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Helen Alvaré: Catholic Speaker and Scholar Who Upends Pro-Life Stereotypes
National Catholic Prayer Breakfast honors the U.S. legal expert, highlighting her ‘work on pro-life issues and the broader public discourse on polarizing social issues that not only divide the American electorate, but U.S. Catholics, as well.’
