There has been talk recently of permitting laicized married priests, to 
remain married & have all of their orders restored. Now these ex
priests can annoint a dying person, in the absence of a priest.
Woman priests, are a dubious point. I see them being allowed as
deacons, never a priest with full orders.
As the shortage of priests increases in parts of the world, something must
be done. The alternative of great swaths of the world losing the sacrament 
of the Eucharist is too sad to imagine.