The administration of the sacraments became an integral part of their daily life, as did religious ceremonies and services. Life for Medieval Europeans was very difficult and often unpleasant, but faith taught them that there was always salvation which they could work towards. Additionally, religious belief gave something for Medieval Christians to hope for. While many other institutions seemed in continual flx, the Church provided Christians an ever present community and sense of security. The Church was a constant force in the lives of Europeans during the Middle Ages and it was their shared beliefs that brought people together in the divisive times of Feudalism. Throughout the Middle Ages the Catholic Church had reigned as one of the most powerful institutions. Additionally, it will discuss the changes in thinking that began to weaken the ChurchвЂ™s authority and would eventually inspire reformers like Martin Luther to challenge Church authority and break off from the Catholic Church entirely. To that end, this module will discuss the place of the Medieval Catholic Church in society and politics. However, in order to understand how the Reformation came about and its importance one must first understand the importance of the Catholic Church in European Society before the Reformation. The Reformation, or Protestant Reformation, was the schism which occurred during the 16th Century when Christian reformers opposed the practices of the Catholic Church. The Early Modern Period in Europe was marked by a number of social and political revolutions, but none was quite so all-encompassing as the Reformation. This module will cover the importance of Religion prior to the Reformation, and the changes in European society that lead Europeans to question religious authority. To learn about the Protestant Reformation which began in Europe during the 16th Century.Wittenberg, Germany, was also the town where Martin Luther, an influential German priest in the 1500s, nailed his theses challenging Catholicism to a church door in 1517, which led to the Protestant Reformation in Germany. The Judensau is one of about two dozen similar sculptures from the Middle Ages that are still displayed on churches around Germany and Europe. The Central Council of Jews said it understood the court's decision not to remove the sculpture, but it added that the explanatory display under it is not enough, with Council President Josef Schuster saying the church's defamation of the Jews 'must be a thing of the past once and for all.'Д¬LICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER

The court claimed the church transforming the stone carving into a memorial as a testimony to the Christian church's anti-Jewish attitudes over the centuries was one way the church did not violate the law in displaying the carving, a statement from the court said.

The church displaying the Judensau had installed an information board and a bronze plaque under the antisemitic stone carving in 1988 to remember the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust. ONE DEAD AND 30 INJURED AFTER MAN DRIVES CAR INTO CROWD NEAR BERLIN CHURCH The Jewish plaintiff in the case has fought a court battle for years to remove the 13th century 'Judensau' or 'Jew Sow' on the church, which depicts a rabbi holding the tail of a pig, an animal considered unclean in Judaism, as two Jewish children drink from the pig's teats. Marien Church in Wittenberg, Germany, displaying the sculpture. The Federal Court of Justice, Germany's top appeals court, upheld rulings from lower courts that dismissed the case, saying there was no breach of the law in the St. Germany's top court ruled it will allow an antisemitic medieval display to stay on a church, marking another setback for Jews who seek the removal of the sculpture.

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