{"id":672,"date":"2006-11-14T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2006\/11\/tomkat-separation-of-scientology-and.html"},"modified":"2006-11-14T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T16:13:00","slug":"tomkat-separation-of-scientology-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2006\/11\/tomkat-separation-of-scientology-and.html","title":{"rendered":"TomKat: Separation of Scientology and State"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes going to be married before they get to the altar<\/a>? The couple has booked a romantic, 15th-century castle north of Rome, and international singing star Andrea Bocelli will sing. Katie’s dad has even overcome his misgivings and wishes for a Catholic wedding and agreed to give Katie away.<\/p>\n

But unless the Italian government is working from a special rulebook for celebrities, the religious ceremony–a Scientologist minister will officiate–will have to be preceded by a civil marriage. “A religious marriage is not so easy for non-Italians,” says a website that arranges dream weddings in Italy, especially if you are not Catholic. “If you wish to marry in a non-Catholic church,” says italy-weddings.com<\/a>, “it is almost impossible to do so without first obtaining a civil marriage license.”<\/p>\n

Because of Italy’s strong historic association with the Roman church, even mainstream Protestant clergy are not automatically licensed to marry in Italy, much less Scientologist ministers. Insiders dismiss reports<\/a> that the wedding won’t be legal, saying the couple has done “all the necessary paperwork.” But that phrase, associated on most wedding-in-Italy sites with registering your civil bond, only lends support to the idea that a civil bond will unite the pair before Scientology pronounces them man and wife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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