Keep the Faith

Watergate has seen appeals to courts and Congress and led even the most loyal Americans to feel on occasion like strangers in a strange land. Now the Dominican Sisters of Adrian, Mich., are appealing to a higher source. They have devised a prayer for a "government of integrity," calling upon the deity "to strengthen and inspire our representatives to pass legislation that will emancipate us from cancerous greed and conspiratorial secrecy." In Detroit, Archbishop John Cardinal Dearden issued a pastoral letter that noted, "These are difficult days for the country we love," and asked observance of the first three Fridays in November as days of voluntary prayer, penance and fasting in light of the nation's political turmoil.

As for President Nixon himself, he held no fewer than 37 Sunday services in the East Room of the White House during his first term in office, but has had only four such services since he was inaugurated for his second term ten months ago. The President went to church a total of ten times during his first term, but has been there only once so far this year.

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