This is what most people in the media or saying, but of course from outside we can't really know. One story that keeps being told is that Katie Holmes was worried about the Church's influence on their daughter Suri. Suri is now 6 and getting to an age when she would start being schooled in the beliefs of Scientology, and various sources say that her mother doesn't want that. There are a lot of question marks over the way children are educated in Scientology, but neither Holmes nor Cruise has publicly said anything to confirm that this is a reason for the split.

All they have said in public is that they are coming to an agreement where they are both important in Suri's upbringing and that they agree to respect each other's beliefs. We will probably know more as the details of the divorce are made public. Meanwhile, the Church is said to be preparing itself for a big media campaign to counter the damaging remarks that have been made about it.