Can there ever be women priests?

[Mike30]

Some people say that John Paul II infallibly deared that women could not be ordained. Others say that it was not an infallible statement. Was his statement made infallibly or not?

 

[Devon_Caffran]

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• Did John Paul II’s refusal to ordain women go against his consistent teaching on the dignity of the individual person?