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Preparation for actress Nicole Kidman and country singer Keith Urban’s anticipated June 25 wedding has helped guide her back to the Catholic Church, said a priest who knows her.
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In recent months, it has been reported that she has studied theology at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., as “a return to her Catholic roots.”

“Catholicism guides me. I certainly have a strong belief. I try to go to church regularly, and I try to go to confession,” she told the Philippine Daily Enquirer.

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See more by googling the priest’s name. At first, I thought for sure this was just some wacky Jesuit doing tricks for rich people, but apparently she did have her previous marriage to the Tomcult taken care of (see especially this article). I would venture to guess that there are lots of “Catholic” politicians who are on their second, third, or fourth wife who haven’t taken the pains she has to obey the church.

I suppose that even if you had to get an annulment, you might have a good shot if your partner was…well, him. Thankfully, the Church doesn’t recognize “weddings” performed by “churches” with the (atrocious) word “scientology” in their title. I mean, just think about the absurdity of that redundant word being used as a name for the particular form of crockery it represents.