BEIJING, June 30 -- The giant engagement ring and Eiffel Tower proposal have quelled most doubts in Katie Holmes' hometown about her relationship with Tom Cruise.

    It hasn't, though, stopped the squawking about her sudden interest in Scientology, Cruise's religion.

    Holmes, 26, graduated from an all-girls Catholic school. "I wonder what the nuns are thinking now," said Jeanne Meyer, a Toledo native. "I'm surprised she's going so far from her origins."

    "Everyone's entitled to their own beliefs," said Karen Rosebrock, a Catholic in Toledo.

    Cruise, 42, and Holmes, who went public with their relationship in April, were engaged a week ago in Paris. Earlier this month Holmes said she was taking lessons in the Church of Scientology.

    On NBC's "Today" on Friday, Cruise was asked if he could be with someone who doesn't have an interest in Scientology.

    "Scientology is something that you don't understand," he told interviewer Matt Lauer. "It's like you could be a Christian and be a Scientologist." Enditem

(Source: CRIENGLISH.com)