JPII’s statement on women priests is NOT infallible. There are only three teachings that are infallible in the RCC. So, yes, it is possible that there could be women priests [not perhaps likely soon, tho]. Further Vatican II predates JPII...by about 30 years [the document you are referencing is from ‘95, Vatican II…

Oops, meant to reply on this post. But I will reiterate here: teaching on women priests is NOT infallible.

This is totally false. There are only THREE infallIble teachings in the RCC: assumption of Mary, Immaculate Conception, Teaching on Infallibility itself. While John Paul II did stated what you said about women priests and deemed it “definitively held” , he did not speak “ex cathedra” meaning that it is still up for…