Cardinal Eijk has emphasized that such teaching cannot be changed by cultural or social pressure. Furthermore, he regards it as a topic in its death throes that is no longer relevant to young people seeking to encounter Christ in the Catholic Church. In an ordination homily in November 2024, he said that “young people do not come [to church] to discuss the ordination of women, because that is a topic from the 1960s that no longer interests them at all. They come to pray.”
