At the end of this week, I will be going to a small symposium sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Catholic Studies in LA on John O'Malley's book, What Happened at Vatican II (reviewed in this issue of Commonweal). Joe K. is also a participant.So I thought, to get some more ideas for us to talk about, I'd open a thread on John Wilkins's article in this issue, and also on the review of O'Malley's book.