(Part two-a of four)  Dennism—If, as you say - and I think you are right - the hierarchy won't be truly Christlike and humanly honest, what is the answer?...Our "teaching authority", from Popes, Magisterium, Curia, hierarchy and clergy have commanded us to be "counter cultural".  This canard angers me as an excuse for avoiding responsibility for influencing and forming culture.  “Fear not to cry out and say to the cities of Judah:  Here is your God!!” (Isaiah 40:9)  Liturgy of the Word, Reading 182, Tuesday of the Second Week of Advent I