Preface to the English edition -- Introduction / by Thomas P. Rausch -- The first session -- Opening of the Council and election of commissions -- First debates on the Liturgy Schema -- Early debate on revelation -- Last phase of the first session -- The second session -- Preliminary notes -- Work begins : the debate on the Church -- Practical questions : bishops' conferences, bishops' council and curial reform -- Interlude : the mariological question -- The question of ecumenism -- The achievements of the second session -- Afterword -- The third session -- The fall of 1964 -- The Council at the close of the session -- Ecumenical problems involved in the teaching on Episcopal collegiality -- Concluding remarks -- The fourth session -- Opening of the session and the New Synod of Bishops -- The first topic of debate : religious liberty -- The struggle over schema 13 -- The Council's two final discussions -- The last phase of the Council -- Epilogue.