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FBN’s Gerry Baker interviews Cardinal Timothy Dolan about the important role religion plays in politics. When it comes to mixing politics and religion, New York's most prominent Catholic leader says it's a must. “A public square where religious values are absent is perilous,” Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Archdiocese of New York told "WSJ at Large" host Gerry Baker on FOX Business on Friday. As we move closer to the 2020 presidential election, political and religious controversies dominate headlines. From gay marriage, abortion and contraception, to divorce and the sanctity of marriage, many in the U.S. find the Church’s position irrelevant or harmful and offensive. But Cardinal Dolan believes that those negative perspectives are "caricatures of the Church” which need to be replaced by a more affirmative view. "That’s a Catholic value, it’s also a very American value.” This becoming ever more prevalent as political discourse takes on more theological overtones. Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg, an openly-married gay man, who was baptized Catholic but is now an Episcopalian, frequently references faith in his campaign and criticized Vice President Mike Pence's cultural and religious conservatism a “fanatical” ideology. It is no surprise that there is very little consensus on how religion should be integrated with politics. A new survey suggests Americans are rejecting religion in their own lives at a record pace.

David Greene talks to Frank Phillips, Boston Globe State House bureau chief, and NPR congressional correspondent Scott Detrow, about what to expect. You have an outsider female congressional candidate challenging an establishment Democrat and a moderate Republican governor facing an onslaught from the right. He knows a lot about Massachusetts politics. GREENE: So one of the major storylines we're seeing is this Democratic primary race. PHILLIPS: Well, it's a real challenge to it. GREENE: That he has a serious - a challenge as serious as this. GREENE: All right, Frank Phillips of The Boston Globe talking to us about the primary today in his state. GREENE: Let me turn now to NPR congressional correspondent Scott Detrow, who's been listening with us. DETROW: Yeah, he criticized Sessions for two indictments that went out over the summer against Republican congressmen - the first two Republicans on the Hill who endorsed President Trump, actually. OK. NPR's Scott Detrow.

Tuesday was another Election Day in the United States, and the marquee showdown was a special election in Ohio’s 12th congressional district. It went decisively for President Trump in 2016. “Republicans will need to find a way to win back suburbanites or better galvanize rural voters,” wrote the New York Times. The push for Brexit and the electoral gains of the far right in France and Germany all required the mobilization of voters living outside major urban centers. Town and country divisions — and the cultural enmities they foster — stretch back to antiquity. In rural areas, about 40 percent of both college whites and non-whites saw a positive impact, compared to only about one-fourth of non-college whites.” In European parliamentary democracies, the segment of the population animated chiefly by anti-immigrant fears usually gets relegated to a junior seat at the table. But in America’s antiquated system of gerrymandered districts and the electoral college, less-densely populated parts of the country are favored over denser ones — a political reality crucial to Trump’s victory. “Democrats have become the party of the multicultural city, Republicans the party of the monocultural country — the party of urbanization-resistant white people.” It’s a dynamic, Wilkinson argues, that is toxic for American democracy in the long run. And it masks the extent to which the collective story of America — of both its glories and its inequities — is an increasingly urban one. The vast urban, middle-class support behind India’s right-wing nationalist prime minister, Narendra Modi, shows that cities aren’t always crucibles of liberalism.

Sansone founded the New Era Democratic Club in Brooklyn with her husband, Zachary. She also created the Coalition of Italian-American Organizations. She also backed Republican George Pataki as well as Democrat Mario Cuomo for governor. In fact, her club referred to itself an “independent political organization.” Modal Trigger Bloomberg on Tuesday said Sansone’s endorsement gave his first run for mayor in 2001 credibility. “Back in 2001, when not a lot of people were predicting success for my mayoral campaign, Mary Sansone told me I was going to win. Her crystal ball proved to be as good as her famous meatballs,” Bloomberg said in a statement. “Mary passionately believed that partisan politics should never get in the way of serving the public. She and her husband, Zach, were always kind and generous to me, and I always enjoyed the visits to their home – and of course, her meatballs. Well, Mary Sansone, without question, to me, was the most interesting person in New York City, because a lifetime – a lifetime of changing this world and changing this city for the better,” de Blasio said. He declared June 12, 2016 Mary Sansone Day.