Tag: Helen Alvaré

It’s often said you should never meet your heroes. Those you admire from afar often fail to live up to your expectations when you meet them personally. George Mason Professor of Law Helen Alvaré had the opposite effect on me—I left feeling that just maybe, I had met someone on the road to sainthood.

It’s an “ugly scene” when the church’s teaching collides with the new sexual orthodoxy, but religious freedom is still possible, said visiting US Catholic legal scholar, Professor Helen Alvaré, in the latest instalment of Scholarship at the Cathedral on 12 August.

Leading religious freedom scholar Professor Helen Alvaré will deliver this year’s Tim Fischer Oration in Canberra next month. The visit of this courageous advocate for conscience protections comes in the wake of the Calvary Hospital takeover and increasing pressures on religious freedom in Australia.

There is no way out of the church and world’s conflict over sexual ethics—only a way through, according to George Mason University’s Helen Alvaré, who will deliver the 2024 Tim Fischer Oration next month.