Cardinal Eijk: JPII Institute and Pontifical Academy for Life must be ‘clear and unambiguous’

"We have to transmit the truth about marriage, about sexual life. That may be difficult, but it is possible."

Cardinal Willem Eijk of Utrecht has a reputation among his brother cardinals as a clear and outspoken voice on issues of life and bioethics.

His plainspoken manner, typical of a Dutchman, has earned him critics too, both inside and outside of the Church, both in the Netherlands and abroad.

But it has also earned him a reputation for clarity in times of co…