This is definitely a must-read, and thanks for bringing it to our attention. 

Eye-opening stuff:

"Furness has just asked Dr Ranson about God and God’s gender.

"Furness: But in relation to what you have described as the patriarchal imagery of God, there is no question that those who represent God on earth are male. How then should one see the image of God in other than patriarchal terms?

"Ranson: Because God is neither male nor female, and so there are many other ways of imagining God.

"Ranson has just said a lot of words that defy translating here, but we are back to how the church’s patriarchal culture “translates into systems and structures of power and submission”.

"An 'exclusive patriarchal sense of God', as demonstrated within the Catholic Church, translates into . . . clericalism."