There's some formation that people here have REALLY missed.

The Church as no temporal aim; it simply seeks the salvation of all souls, not just Catholics.
The State's only aim is the temporal common good of all mankind.

As the Pope has told us the Church is not an NGO.

"Distinction of ends" and "harmonization of ends" as the Faith teaches.

The lay role in this harmonization is larger than the visible Church. 

Our job is to harmonize the ends in the ordinary channels of human work, which includes the government.

The clerics can't do this.

It's our job...the neighborhood groups we belong to, the HOAs, the town councils, the town halls we attend, the voting we do, the financial support we give, the letters to the editor that we write, the offices we perhaps run for and serve in.

Too many lay here misunderstand the Church in relation to the State, particularly their role in both the Church and the State.