Elisabeth Cervantes

Elisabeth Cervantes

Elisabeth Cervantes is a graduate of Thomas Aquinas College with a B.A. in Liberal Arts. Her work has appeared in the Intercollegiate Review, Beneficence, and the San Diego Union Tribune, where she worked as an intern on the editorial board.

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FJI

Competition or Complementarity? A Defense of Male Altar Servers

February 2, 2015

Father Illo’s decision to discontinue female altar serving in his parish invites an examination of how well the negative media reactions correspond to the Church’s own teachings on men and women.


Academic Freedom, Self-Government, and the Common Good

July 17, 2014

A good education contributes to human flourishing. It cultivates individual happiness, and in turn augments the common good composed of those individuals.

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On Hobby Lobby, I Don’t Stand With the Feminists

July 9, 2014

Hobby Lobby isn’t dictating whether or not I can spend my compensation on birth control. The Court simply says that they don’t think employers should have to pay for it. And speaking as a woman, that’s fine with me.


We Created Elliot Rodger

May 30, 2014

Neither guns, nor misogyny, nor mental illness are the only reasons 7 people died last week. We need to focus on the cause of the problem, not its fruits, if we want to begin to prevent it from happening again.