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Helen Alvaré is currently a Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law, where she teaches Family Law, Law and Religion, and Property Law. She also serves as chair of the Catholic Women’s Forum, as a consultor for the Pontifical Council of the Laity, an advisor to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and as an ABC news consultant. She cooperates with the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations on matters concerning women and the family.

In addition to her publications in law reviews and other academic journals on matters concerning marriage, parenting, non-marital households, abortion and the First Amendment religion clauses, Alvaré also publishes regularly in news outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Huffington Post, the Weekly Standard, and the Washington Examiner. She often speaks at academic and professional conferences in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Australia.

Politics & SocietyShort Take
​Helen Alvaré
The extensive New York Times series in support of legal abortion unfolds as if the last 46 years of the abortion debate following Roe v. Wade never happened and did not need to.
FaithLast Take
​Helen Alvaré
Pope Francis reminds us to get back to basics in a way that is desperately needed.
Columns
​Helen Alvaré
Its truest purveyors are neither elite nor even much noticed.
Columns
​Helen Alvaré
The argument tying more legal abortion to the plight of poor women is old.
Attendees of Catholic Charities USA's annual gathering in Charlotte, N.C., praying during an Oct. 5 Mass at St. Joseph Vietnamese Catholic Church (CNS photo /Patricia L. Guilfoyle, Catholic Herald).
Synod on the Family
​Helen Alvaré
The "instrumentum laboris," or working document for the coming October Synod on the Family, is a rather overwhelming wish list of pastoral outreach initiatives that the universal church hopes the local church will undertake more fully and better than before. To be sure, its subtitle a
Columns
​Helen Alvaré
There are huge risks to talking about women, qua women, in the church.
Columns
​Helen Alvaré
The pope reminds me that I have to query my choices about time and money and the stuff I buy.
OPEN HOUSE. Churchgoers in St. Leo, Kan., after Saturday evening Mass.
​Helen Alvaré
It is no small challenge to speak about “the family in America” given family diversity in this country. It is possible, however, to speak generally about the forces acting on families, and some of their effects within households, in light of the coming deliberations at the Synod of Bisho
Columns
​Helen Alvaré
There's still no consensus about whether child care is a worthy expenditure of women’s time.
Columns
​Helen Alvaré
It is good for Catholics to cheer on one another’s varied works of charity.