The "Jesus’ wife" papyrus

A piece of papyrus has apparently been authenticated as ancient, and on it are words in coptic which state  “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife …’ ”.http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/us/historian-says-piece-of-papyrus-refers-to-jesus-wife.html?_r=1It seems that there is an overreaction to this fragment (sidenote: if you want to see why academic history and the popular media don't always go well together, see the lines of the NY Times article which say "But they are relevant today, when global Christianity is roiling over the place of women in ministry and the boundaries of marriage.").  Somewhere in the article it said the fragment is believe to date to somewhere around the fourth century A.D., and that the words are in keeping with one or more apocryphal gospels.  With this in mind, and assuming it is a genuine papyrus from that date, it would simply be consistent with those gospels which were rejected as apocryphal in the days of the early Church.  It seems that those who hope to use these kinds of apocryphal writings to support their modern-day activism first need to show that these books should never have been rejected in the first place....which is something they're not going to be able to do.