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We must remember the audience he was addressing - he was talking to housekeepers!  He never said that women are only good enough to be housekeepers, that men were so much more important - he was praising those who found it in their hearts to do that work.  He praised them for "giving (their) life to a great cause: that of the Catholic priesthood, indispensable to the visibility and vitality of parish communities," and asked them as their strength permitted to advance to the things quoted above.

Very different from the impression that was offered by the author.