The word "confessional" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a place or a situation in which people admit or confess their sins or mistakes. For example, "The church has a confessional booth for those wishing to confess their sins."
To visit his office was to experience something of the intellectual calm of a tutorial or the moral purgation of a confessional.
Greg's position is undermined by an indecency charge; he also becomes aware through the confessional of a girl's abuse by her father.
We're talking about the dormant tradition of the confessional singer-songwriter in the pop charts, with Clarkson interspersing her thoughts with references to her "really rough upbringing".
From prize-winning creative non-fiction to celebrity tell-alls and confessional misery-lit, memoirs have generated critical exaltation, controversy and some serious sales.
Talk radio in Ireland is huge and has, in a socio-cultural sense, long replaced the priest and the confessional as the place where the Republic bares its soul.
Together the weather is a language we can barely understand; but confessional experts detect in the senseless diktat of hurricane a hymning of our sins, our stupid counterpoint.
With an inter-confessional divide pitting Orthodox Serbs and Greeks against Muslim Bosnians and Turks—looming in south-eastern Europe, Albania stands out as a country where Muslims (who form a slight majority), Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians get along reasonably well.
So far, most of the Iraqis recruited into the new Iraqi army have been Shia, and their loyalty to the idea of a multi-confessional state is at best uncertain.For the Shia leadership, making compromises such as these will require a supreme effort of self-control.
The aftermath of the foreign-ministry bombing was a rare chance to cut Mr Maliki down to size, leaving the former bead-seller from the Damascus souk with no other choice but to strike out on his own.Mr Maliki has thus announced a plan to set up a multi-confessional coalition, making a virtue of his predicament.
For those on the left who favour a single state, it means a multi-ethnic, multi-confessional country in which a Palestinian Muslim might one day become prime minister.
And one wishes that Ms Finkel had developed her intriguing defence of the empire in the 19th century, "multi-confessional, geographically incoherent and economically backward", in the face of demands, on the part of impertinent Europeans, that it reform internally.The limitations of Ms Finkel's approach are most apparent in her perfunctory treatment of the empire's final, tumultuous years.
