Serving the Nation as Serving the Church

‘Serving man is to serve God; Serving the Church is to serve the nation’. The preamble of the Indian constitution under Articles 25-28 denotes the objectives which secures to every citizen. They are justice, liberty, equality and fraternity. Through these a human person is socially, economically and politically eligible to serve one another (Compendium of Social Doctrine 160). The social teaching of the Catholic Church, on the other hand, elucidates four similar principles: the dignity of the human person, common good, subsidiarity and finally, solidarity. Every human being is unique because he or she was formed willed by God as an unrepeatable person, created out of love, and redeemed with ever greater love