Anticipating the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Robert Blair Kaiser tells us how the Council made the bishops more human, more real, and more loving. The bishops turned around and made us (and the whole Church) more human, more real, and more loving. Kaiser covered the Council for Time magazine, and has published five books on the Council and the post-conciliar Church. He is one of the few still alive who was there in Rome, an unusual participant-observer at the Council.