Good piece. Quinn seemed to be a cleric who evolved from a hardline cleric to a softer version.
Unlike many prelates who remain faithfully hardened. Company men truly. 
Catholic women served a need in their narrow world then.  With Catholic women being emancipated they do not need a rigid structure to share their gifts. As not all women are emancipated from patriarchy, so not all RC women either, and will drift into cult-like groups that acquiesce to clerical hierarchs.
I thought it sadly bemusing that priests were assigned yearly to regular & extraordinary confessors to each convent, What sins might these kept women be committing?  But there was never any yearly assignment of priests to rectories hear  priest confessions. Priests didn't sin, or so we thought, until the pedophile dam burst!