Ratzinger and Tradition: This is Ground Control; We've Lost Contact

Presently I am having to read through Tracey Rowland's work on Ratzinger's Faith quite slowly because there are so many other things pressing down on me that require my reading attention just now. One being to finish up this Ph.D which I am happy to say is almost 90,000 words and 218 pages and I'm writing the final chapter now. But that is just an explanation of why I move through this book so slowly. I did find her explanation of Ratzinger's view of tradition to be insightful and helpful to our present situation in the Anglican Communion as to why we seem unable to be self-critical and change our course rather than being reduced to eventual meaninglessness. She writes of Ratzinger on tradition saying,

Ratzinger concludes that 'tradition is the precondition for our humanity, and whoever destroys tradition, destroys humanitas--he is like a traveler in space who himself destroys the possibility of ground control, of contact with earth.' Given this constitutional crisis in the order of being, and the 'full-fledged space flight of the spirit,' Ratzinger emphasizes that the Church must be, as it were, 'something of a "ground control", the seat of tradition, even though she is, properly and under other circumstances, the heavenly terminal that draws man from the closed world of his traditions and teaches him to be self-critical.' He further describes as 'absurd' the projects of those who 'seek to destroy the bearer of tradition as such, to undertake an ecclesiastical spaceflight with no ground station, to attempt to produce a new and purer Christianity in the test tube of the mere intellect.' He concludes that 'a Church which is nothing but a manager is nothing at all; she is no longer tradition, and, as an intellect that knows no tradition, she becomes pure nothingness, a monster of meaninglessness.'

When we discuss major differences that we are having with the present direction of the Anglican Communion with regards to people cutting off contact from 'Ground Control' is there any point where we can STOP and establish contact with tradition once again, and perhaps become a bit more 'self-critical'?