Lots happened of course.  It was largely pastoral in nature, and the new focus was the lay...but this too was two folded..it was telling the clerics to encourage the lay to enter the world, boldly, faithfully...and not to hang out at the parish all the time. 

Gaudium et Spes speaks about the autonomy of temporal matters...it's the lay's role to give back to those matters their originally intended purpose using their own freedom.