Keith Urban, Nicole Kidman Baby? Couple's Dreams Of New Child Dashed By Religion? [VIDEO]
Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman may have been planning to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary by welcoming a third child together, but a new report from Radar Online suggests that the couple's dreams have now been dashed by their church.
According to the report, the pair was told they couldn't have another child through a surrogate by their church, which is putting an end to their plans, after Kidman became a much more devout Catholic following her father's death in 2014, and since surrogacy goes against the wishes of her church, she is unwilling to go the surrogacy route for a second time.
In an interview with Father Ed Steiner, who is allegedly Kidman's priest, he spoke to the website to say how he would handle the situation if Kidman came to him for advice on how to handle it.
"If she were to come in and say 'I'm thinking about this, what about it?' I'd be duty bound to go through all the church's teaching," he said. "A person's choice is their choice and they have to make it according to conscience. Our job is to help them form their conscience and then make a decision."
However, he also reassured that if Kidman decided to eschew her faith and have a third child with Urban that was through surrogate (their second daughter, Faith, was born via surrogate while their first daughter, Sunday, was born naturally), the couple's child would still be welcomed in the Church, and Kidman wouldn't have to worry about being kicked out.
"If she or anybody did that, what do you do about the child? Well, you love it and baptize it-it's still a child [of God]," he said. "I've been through it with couples and I don't pretend to understand that need to have a child, but there are reasons the church has for what it teaches. But we don't excommunicate over something like that. You've got to be really bad to be excommunicated."
