Not so fast there. JP II also once said there would be no altar girls.
Everything in now debatable in New Church, including Holy Communion for adulterers; ask Francis and his sidekick, Hans.
Did he? When? (Sincere question.) I remember going to my old pastor, Fr. Dominic Tamburello,to voice my disapproval of altar girls, just --- as I remember it --- weeks before altar girls got the OK. I felt rather undercut about it, to say the least.