Editing Pat Buchanan (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Shelley Scarney Pat Buchanon wife.jpg|thumb|upright|Buchanan's wife Shelley in 1996]]
Buchanan married [[White House]] staffer Shelley Ann Scarney in 1971.<ref name="Creatorsabout">{{cite web|url=http://www.creators.com/opinion/pat-buchanan-about.html|title=About Pat Bunchanan|publisher=Creators Syndicate|access-date=January 21, 2007}}</ref> They had a [[tabby cat]] named Gipper, who reportedly would sit on Buchanan's lap during staff meetings.<ref name="Info Please">{{cite web|url=http://www.infoplease.com/spot/prespets.html|title=New First Pets|website=Info Please|publisher=Sandbox | last=Hartman   |first=Holly  |   archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126103811/https://www.infoplease.com/us/government/executive-branch/new-first-pets  |  archive-date=November 26, 2020   |date=February 4, 2000|access-date=April 22, 2011}}</ref> Buchanan identifies as a [[traditionalist Catholicism|traditionalist Catholic]] who attends Mass in the [[extraordinary form of the Roman Rite]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Remembering Nixon's Catholic Coup: An Interview with Pat Buchanan|url=https://www.americamagazine.org/content/all-things/remembering-nixons-catholic-coup-interview-pat-buchanan|author=Sean Salai, S.J.|date=August 5, 2014|access-date=June 28, 2020}}</ref> and strongly defended ''[[Summorum Pontificum]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Triumph for Traditionalists|url=https://buchanan.org/blog/pjb-a-triumph-for-traditionalists-798|first=Pat|last=Buchanan|date=July 10, 2007|access-date=June 28, 2020}}</ref>