Continued - John O'Malley, SJ from America Magazine:

1.Insist Vatican II was only a pastoral council.
2.Insist it was an occurrence in the life of the church, not an event.
3.Banish the expression “spirit of the council.”
4.Study the documents individually, without considering them part of an integral corpus.
5.Study the final 16 documents in the order of hierarchical authority, not in the chronological order in which they were approved in the council.
6.Pay no attention to the documents’ literary form.
7.Stick to the final 16 documents and pay no attention to the historical context, the history of the texts or the controversies concerning them during the council.
8.Outlaw the use of any “unofficial” sources, such as the diaries or correspondence of participants.
9.Interpret the documents as expressions of continuity with the Catholic tradition.
10.Make your assessment of the council into a self-fulfilling prophecy.  

NOTE #3.