The achievements of Vatican II

"This book is not concerned with a description of personalities or to any large extent with a description of how things happened. Its task is the rather pedestrian one of summarizing what was decided at the Council translated, as it were, into unofficial language. We think that behind the generalities there is room for such a work, for many have found it difficult to follow its unfamiliar proceedings, so different from those of a parliament or a congress." [Chapter 1].