Dennism,

Thanks for the quote from a future pope.  However, as a youngster, Joseph Ratzinger must have grown up in a home where the man/husband did rule over the women of the house.  I don't know what Joseph's Mom did.  But the only sister that Joseph had---spent her whole life in service to his older, priest brother and to Joseph.  She spent her whole adult life serving, waiting, nurturing----her brothers.  Was this all that was open to her?