Nicole Kidman Wasn't Married to Tom Cruise...

331. My understanding of annulment is that if Tom and Nicole were not married by a Catholic priest, or no priest was part of the wedding ceremony, that marriage would be considered invalid by the Catholic church anywhere, not just in Australia.

Best of luck to the newlyweds.

Posted at 12:02AM on Jun 28th 2006 by Jane R

332. hopefully they will all die the same day(today please).so maybe the so called press can get down to the business of informing us of relevent news.such as the bush crime family stealing from the treasury,illegal war,stealing elections.pushing religion down our throats,leaking CIA operatives names who were working on iranian weapons info.WAKE UP AMERICA!

Posted at 10:04AM on Jun 28th 2006 by sketch

333. Tom Cruise is a fruitcake. He has the IQ of a snail. Nicole was smart to divorce him. Rosalie, I think the divorce was caused by Nicole's refusal to convert to that crack-pot religion of Tom's. Katie Holmes BEWARE! Your man is a nut.

Posted at 10:53AM on Jun 28th 2006 by Cori

334. Yes Tom is a FAG and a cultist. I am just wonderying why we STILL have seen photo's of Suri? Did he screw her up in the womb with too many ultrasounds? Is she deformed or God forbid something worse? Is it isven Tom's kid? I am sure he didnt' even have Sex with Katie to have the child because he is GAY maybe he and Jacko are the next to come out of the closet TOGETHER- ya never know with Tom.. Good for Nicole she is BLESSED to be rid of Tom and she is doing MUCH better now with her new husband may God bless their union!

Posted at 12:25PM on Jun 28th 2006 by Kat

335. With people like Kat as friends, who needs enemies?

I wonder how old Keith Urban is? He looks younger than Nicole.

With so much Tom bashing going on, Nicole get used to taking just as much scrutiny and heat - and get used to it. The glowing reports of her wedding contrasted against the Tom bashing make me nauseated. Especially since she even looks like an evil person.

Posted at 1:32PM on Jun 28th 2006 by dragonfly

336. With people like Kat as friends, who needs enemies?

I wonder how old Keith Urban is? He looks younger than Nicole. While Tom is accused of robbing the cradle (his wife was only 3 years away from being 30 when they married), it's hypocritical that no one has dared asked the ages of Nicole and Keith.

With so much Tom bashing going on, and Nicole's association to him by default, she will have to get used to taking just as much scrutiny and heat. The glowing reports of her wedding contrasted against the Tom bashing are nauseating. Especially since she even looked like an evil person while they were married. Now she looks humbled - probably by having been divorced so quickly by Cruise. Maybe she finally got her act together.

And BTW, since when does one religion need the permission of another religion to get married? (before you go off on your "scientology isn't a religion" diatribe, realize that calling anyone's religion a cult is hate speech).

Posted at 1:41PM on Jun 28th 2006 by dragonfly

337. Call it a loophole if you want, but it's really very clear in Canon Law what the RC Church will and will not recognize as marriage --as THEY define it. And the way they define it has nothing to do with civil law. It's all about the 'spiritual bond' between the couple and the sacramental ritual performed by the Church. The bottom line is that if you're RC and don't get married they way the Church says that you must, they don't have to recognize it - which is no different than any other religion that has it's own set of laws of faith. If Kidman and Cruise weren't married in the RC Church then they were only married according to civil law. It's not an excommunicational offense - just a lack of practicing your faith.
If Nicole and Keith ever split - that's when the real fireworks will go off for them within the Catholic Church because they played by the rules and in the eyes of the Church they are now bonded for life. Suckers.

Posted at 1:54PM on Jun 28th 2006 by Mark

338. many people ask why tom left nicole... lets go way back when mimi rodgers was married to tom cruise... it was well known he was sterile and could not have children and i think at one point announced this.... then he married nicole and prior to tom leaving nicole was pregnant and people mag had an article saying how tom was not by her side... problem being it wasnt toms and that why he left... why do you think tom acted the way he did on oprah, etc... by a miracle he got katie pregnant when he was told years ago he couldnt have children... i didnt care for the way he acted but if this is the case i understand why he did act the way he did...

Posted at 3:00PM on Jun 28th 2006 by melissa

339. Interesting comments (referring to Nunya & Kathleen's comments, 23 & 26). I was going to write something about my mom's dealings with the Catholic Church & divorces, but I guess it would make sense now. She was married in a church to her 1st and 2nd husbands, so she would not be allowed to marry in the Catholic Church now (because of the divorce).

Oh well, I'm glad Nicole got away from that wacko Tom and was able to marry Keith. Good for her!

Posted at 3:01PM on Jun 28th 2006 by Suzanne

340. Many people are commenting on the issue of annulment, and/or the invalidity of Tom and Nicole's marriage...but you are not understanding the foundational issue of the entire situation. The Catholic Church believes that when two people marry in the church, with a priest witnessing (or other Christian minister) on behalf of the Church, and the congregation (gathered people) that the married couple recieves the Sacrament of Marraige. A Sacrament is an outward sign of an inward Grace. A Christian wedding (the Chruch recognizes any Christian denominations wedding as valid, just not civil ceremonies) is a Covenant between God and the couple. A wedding ceremony that takes place outside of this scenario...well, that is nothing more than a legal exchange. It's not a Sacrament, and in the eyes of the Church, it's not a Covenant marraige in the definition of Marriage in the Church. Because of this, Nicole and Keith had to have marriage prep classes like any other couple getting married in the Catholic Church, with some added counciling in light of the relationship with Tom, but no previous Sacrament took place that needed to be annuled.

Posted at 7:27PM on Jun 28th 2006 by Brigid

341. The Catholic Church does not excommunicate anyone for "living with" someone, as someone stated. Neither you nor I have any right to judge Nicole. She has stated publically that she goes to Mass regularly, and to Confession. We will never know what she's been forgiven of in that Sacrament (I don't expect many of you to even understand what that's all about), so who are we to judge. The Church is against anyone cohabitating before marriage, and when you apply to be married in the Church this is addressed if necessary. It's a privilage to be married in the Catholic Church, not a right, and there are boundaries that must be honored. There are priests who are more strict than others (the Church is made up of very human and sometimes sinful people, they've never claimed otherwise), most will require the couple seperate their living situation, and then do the standare marriage prep programs that eveyone has to do, with additional counciling because of the living scenario they were in together...the Church wants to make sure that people entering into this covenant with God and eachother really, truly know what they are doing...and are in the right frame of mind to be doing it. It's for the sake of the couple and their future life together.

Posted at 7:33PM on Jun 28th 2006 by Brigid

342. The Catholic Church doesn't excommunicate people for living together, or for divorcing and remarring. It actually takes quite a bit to get excommnicated (even for Henry the VIII, who was excommunicated for declaring himself the head of teh church in England, not for wanting a divorce). And the church has always allowed members whose first marrige was a civil ceremony and then ended in divorce to marry in the church the next time out.

Posted at 8:45PM on Jun 28th 2006 by MG

343. I am not a Tom Cruise fan at all, but I don't believe he's gay. And how would any one know for a fact that He and Nicole had some kind of fake marriage, I think they loved each other, and I don't know if he was sterile or not, no one could know that for sure, and I don't have knowledge of why he and Nicole got divorced, I don't believe any of the tabloid stories, they make s*** up out of thin air to sell more copies...I wish Keith and Nicole a happy and long marriage, and as far as his addictions, he went thru rehab, time will tell if he relapses, but give him the benefit of the doubt, such negativity here..I hope Kate wakes up soon from her Scientology induced coma...

Posted at 10:53AM on Jun 29th 2006 by judy

344. I doubt very much that Tom and Kates wedding will never take place. He has her hypnotized or something. I dont know why she had a baby with him!! Also if Nichol and Tome were married for ten years and had no kids of ther own, why all of a sudden does Tom become a stud. I heard that Nichole wants to have kids with Urban. Its a good thing for her it never happened with Tom!!! He is idiotic!!

Posted at 7:46PM on Jun 29th 2006 by Linda Monks

345. Congrats Nic. You deserve all the happiness in the world girl. Keit's da man!!

Posted at 11:54PM on Jun 30th 2006 by todiefor