Every citizen also has the responsibility to work to secure justice and human rights through an organized social response. The Christian has the duty to take part in this search and in the organization and life of political society. As a social being, men and women build their destiny within a series of particular groupings which demand, as their completion and as a necessary condition for their development, a vaster society, one of a universal character, the political society. The members of the Church, as members of society, have the same right and duty to promote the common good as do other citizens.
Christians ought to fulfil their temporal obligations with fidelity and competence.
They should act as a leaven in the world, in their family, professional, social, cultural and political life. It is in keeping with their dignity as persons that human being should take an active part in government. Once again we exhort our children to take an active part in public life, and to contribute towards the attainment of the common good of the entire human family as well as to that of their own country. Citizens should cultivate a generous and loyal spirit of patriotism, but without narrow-mindedness, so that they will always keep in mind the welfare of the entire human family which is formed into one by various kinds of links between races, peoples, and nations. All citizens ought to be aware of their right and duty to promote the common good by casting their votes.