Do you have actual citation for that?  Even if you did, that proves nothing.  Popes can talk all they want.  What matters is what they officially teach in union the whole Church.  

Do you have a citation for JPII being told he has no basis for not making this a dogma?  Hans Kung, Ray Brown or other dissidents do not count. I am aware that there is some discussion as to whether his statement should be taken as an exercise in Papal infallibility or whether he was merely reiterating what is already infallible--and thus no need for him to make an Ex-Cathedral statement.  In short--the question isn't whether the teaching is infallibly---but the how it is infallible manifest to the Church.  

Pope Francis indeed confirmed what JP II said.  This publication did a whole write up on it on "Pope Francis Confirms Finality of 'Ban' on Women Priests."  Google it.  Read it.  Women's ordination will always remain a fiction of the WOC and Gary Macy.