Editing Mark Shields (section)

== Early life and education ==
[[File:Shields and Brooks on Trump’s primary sweep, Clinton’s ‘woman’s card’.webm|thumbtime=45|thumb|Mark Shields on ''[[PBS NewsHour]]'' on April 29, 2016]]
Shields was born on May 25, 1937,<ref name="WaPoObit">{{cite news |last1=Schudel |first1=Matt |title=Mark Shields, columnist and TV political commentator, dies at 85 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/06/18/tv-political-commentator-mark-shields-dies/ |access-date=June 20, 2022 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=June 18, 2022}}</ref> and raised in [[Weymouth, Massachusetts]], in an [[Irish Catholic]] family, the son of Mary (Fallon), a schoolteacher, and William Shields, a paper salesman, who was involved in local politics.<ref name=obit>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/18/us/politics/mark-shields-dead.html |title=Mark Shields, TV Pundit Known for His Sharp Wit, Dies at 85 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date= June 18, 2022|accessdate=2022-06-18|last1=Haberman |first1=Clyde|url-access = limited}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Shields|first=Mark|url=http://www.creators.com/opinion/mark-shields/my-kind-of-sermon.html|title=My Kind of Sermon|publisher=Creators Syndicate|date=August 18, 2009|access-date=July 4, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090704034129/http://www.creators.com/opinion/mark-shields/my-kind-of-sermon.html|archive-date=July 4, 2009}}</ref> He graduated from the [[University of Notre Dame]] in 1959 with a [[bachelor's degree]] in philosophy.<ref name=obit/>