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Your logic is spot on, but I would change the facts a bit. I would say that female priests are not even possible. An Ecumenical Council cannot overturn it, it is an infallible doctrine and thus cannot change. God would never move an Ecumenical Council to overturn the infallible magisterium of the Church, that would be a contradiction.
Now that I think about it; there is no precedent or mechanism for an Ecumenical Council or even the Magisterium to overturn anything declared to be infallible so I agree and amend my previous statement to conclude that it is impossible under cannon law.
On everything else I entirely agree, though. Thank you for your astute, well-reasoned and, most importantly, polite post.
Thanks for presenting the case from a Catholic point of view! Although I am not a "true" Catholic myself; its good see someone provide some counterbalance to the anti-Catholicism which seems to be a dominant force around here.