The “Dawson’s Creek” actress, 33, made headlines last week when she filed for divorce from “Mission: Impossible” actor Cruise after nearly six years of marriage and one child. While Holmes, Cruise and representatives for both have remained quiet about the reasons for the high-profile split, speculation in the media is that Suri, now at the age when she begins a formal education, and the Church of Scientology, of which Cruise is a key member, are central to the breakup. “What’s interesting is that there’s three players in this case -- the mother, the father and this very controversial concept of Scientology,” said New York-based divorce lawyer Lubov Stark. “The daughter is in the middle of this whole divorce. She seems to have been raised in Scientology up to this age, so if the judge comes in and gives custody to Katie Holmes, she can change [Suri’s] religion,” Stark said. The Church of Scientology was founded by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, and it describes its practices as a religion.
