text: After saying the door is shut, the Pope says that women have the capacity to be priests (September 28, 2015 NCR article).  Despite the headlines on or about November 1, 2016 (NCR), the Pope says aboard the plane from Sweden that the teaching "remains." That could mean "endures;" however it could mean, "it is the status quo." At this point one might assume he means, "it is a done deal." However -- then he says,"it goes in that direction." So not a done deal, but instead, a process that has a direction. This is an enormous step forward to define the teaching not as a done deal, but as a process, perhaps a process of discernment.  His affirming the Magdalene as apostle also has interesting implications.  If real Christians 'don't put up walls,' as he has said, then he should begin dialoging with the organization of Roman Catholic women priests, just as he is willing to dialog with the Lutheran Church.