Tradition and Sanity

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Does St. Paul Teach Us About Mary as the “New Eve”?

An important but strangely overlooked teaching in 1 Corinthians 11

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Fr Thomas Crean
Jan 05, 2026
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The fact that the Blessed Virgin Mary should be honoured as the new or second Eve is certainly a part of sacred tradition. St John Henry Newman, Doctor of the Church, observed from his deep patristic knowledge, that this title of our Lady has a certain primacy over all others. In his justly celebrated Letter to his Anglican friend Edward Pusey—recently …

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Fr Thomas Crean is a Dominican friar of the English Province. He was ordained as a priest in 2001.
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