Original sentence: The Bologna School is a historical school of ecclesiastical history, specializing in the history of the Second Vatican Council which "a system of interpretation of the council which emphasized the 'spirit' of the council, styling the the progressive reformers as the heroes and the conservative minority at the council as the enemies of progress"
Edited sentence: Among the critics of the School have been Vatican chief historian Walter Brandmüller, Italian historian Roberto de Mattei, and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI).In contrast, they assert that the Second Vatican Council is to be interpreted through a hermeneutic of reform in continuity with the past.The Bologna School is a historical school of ecclesiastical history, specializing in the history of the Second Vatican Council, and largely supportive of the so-called hermeneutic of rupture, creating a pre-Conciliar and post-Conciliar period