In an era increasingly shadowed by authoritarian impulses, strident nationalism, and widening social inequalities, India—the world’s largest democracy—stands at a decisive moral and political threshold. Public institutions wrestle with questions of integrity and accountability, and citizenship can no longer afford the comfort of passive spectatorship. Democracy, this book compellingly argues, is sustained not by indifference but by vigilant, ethical, and prayerful participation—by priests, religious, and laity alike.