That is, confessional schools and confessional instruction in schools remained, but the latter was increasingly in ecumenical or ethical versions.
On the elementary level, in particular, the mixed school was established only when the creeds were so intermingled that a confessional school was impracticable.
The Pieter Nieuwland College, situated in eastern Amsterdam near the spot where van Gogh was murdered, is a so-called confessional school, of Protestant denomination.
Most have been drained of their religious content by now, but the forms remain, and the state continues to subsidize confessional schools, including Muslim ones.
Berryman's work bears some relation to the "confessional" school of poetry that flourished among many of his contemporaries, but in his case bursts of humour sporadically light up the troubled interior landscape.
A clerical-nationalist government was elected in Quebec by a narrow margin, producing a reaction in Protestant Ontario, which, in turn, led in 1890 to the abolition of the confessional schools in Manitoba, where the Roman Catholic schools were almost wholly French-speaking.
The result was the creation in 1870 of the small province of Manitoba, in which equal status was given to the English and French languages and an educational system was established like Quebec's two systems of public confessional schools, Roman Catholic and Protestant.
Confessional schools, be they Jewish or an informal weekend madrassa, are seen as actively undermining the secular Republic by activists of groups like the Bloc Identitaire and the Front National, as well as some members of Sarkozy's UMP, and even some on the left.
Even in the United States, however, the old state-church system, overcome during the American Revolution, still produces aftereffects in the form of tax privileges of the church (exemption from most taxation), the exemption of the clergy from military service, and the financial furtherance of confessional school and educational systems through the state.
But Sweden's ratification of the European Convention of Human Rights precludes a complete ban on confessional schools, which is also what the parties tend to say when pressed on the matter.9.
