Katie's Scientology snub – Suri goes to Catholic school

Strict Scientologist Tom Cruise once vowed that his daughter, Suri, would never be raised a Catholic, but it seems his increasingly assertive wife, Katie Holmes, may be getting the last word on their daughter’s religious upbringing.

In a move that has stunned Hollywood, Catholic-raised Katie, who has not been seen at a Scientology centre for more than five months, has reportedly booked their daughter into a church-run preschool.

While Tom once said, “You can be Catholic and be a Scientologist, but we’re just Scientologists,” it seems that Katie now has other ideas, with their three-year-old set to attend the Catholic Charities Yawkey Center For Early Education And Learning while Tom films a new movie in Boston.

“Katie has been listening to her parents, who are devout Catholics,” a source told Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper. “She is not convinced by Scientology and has told Tom she wants Suri to be educated as a Catholic – as she was.

“They had been having huge problems agreeing on her school. To say they were having arguments is putting it mildly – but Tom came around to the idea in the end.”