False dichotomy. It is the Church's business not to react to culture but to create it.
To this end, the Church must re-discover what tradition means: not rote habit but living in communion. The Church must re-discover that the best way to engage the world is through understanding how it's not of this world. Catholics in a consumer age will not accept 19th century apologetics, based on an appeal to authority, without an understanding that authority is nothing more or less than reality and truth, and that submission to such authority is not self-denial but discovery of the truth that life (and therefore all hope of self-affirmation) are to be found only in being conformed, reconciled, and transfigured.
What the Church needs most now is mystics.
Yes.