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A confessional is a box, cabinet, booth, or stall where the priest in some Christian churches sits to hear the confessions of penitents. It is the typical venue for the sacrament in the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran Churches , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] but similar structures are also used in Anglican churches of an Anglo-Catholic orientation.
All four saw the De Meester cabinet as out of control. Lohman, Schimmelpenninck and Röell recommended a confessional cabinet and Heemskerk as formateur. Van Swinderen preferred a technocratic cabinet until the periodic 1909 general election. If that did not work, someone from the denominational side had to become a formateur. [3]
A process of cabinet formation took place following the Dutch general election of 16 June and 28 June 1905, leading to the formation of the De Meester cabinet on 17 August 1905. It was formed by the Liberal Union (LU) and the Free-thinking Democratic League (VDB) with the support of the Free Liberals (VL) and the Social Democratic Workers ...
After ten years of liberal cabinets, of which Pierson cabinet was the most recent, the liberals suffered a significant loss in the 1901 general election.The confessional parties obtained 47 seats in the first round on 14 June and rose to 58 of the 100 seats in the second round of voting.
In the 1901 election, the SDAP performed particularly well: it tripled its seats to six, the Liberal cabinet which the socialists supported lost its majority. The confessional, Christian-democrat cabinet, composed of the Protestant Anti-Revolutionary Party and the Catholic General League ignored the Socialists.
In 1939, a national cabinet was formed with the SDAP and the three confessional parties. De Geer, as a reliable, respected administrator, led this cabinet. During World War II , De Geer's position became less tenable, as he attempted to negotiate a peace with the Germans against the will of the government.
A confessional cabinet was formed led by the anti-revolutionary Aeneas Mackay Jr.: it combined anti-revolutionary and Catholic ministers, joined by two conservative independents. Because the liberals still controlled the Senate, many of the cabinet's proposals met resistance there and the cabinet fell before the end of its four-year term.
In confessional churches, office-bearers (such as ministers and elders) are required to "subscribe" (or agree) to the church's confession of faith. In Presbyterian denominations, this is the Westminster Confession of Faith, while in Confessional Lutheranism it is the Book of Concord. The degree to which subscribers are required to agree with ...