Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's Surrogacy Plan for Baby No. 3 Opposed by Their Church
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The couple, who welcomed their second child together through surrogate in 2011, is now reportedly refusing to use another surrogate as it goes against the wishes of their church.

AceShowbiz - Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban were reportedly planning for a third child via surrogate but it has been opposed by their church. Rumor has it, the couple, who welcomed their second child together through surrogate in 2011, is now refusing to use another surrogate as it goes against the wishes of their church.

Father Ed Steiner, who is Nicole's priest at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Nashville, tells Radar Online, "In our tradition we would say using a surrogate should not be done. If [Nicole] 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."

Legally, the church cannot advise people against making such decisions, the priest notes. "A person's choice is their choice and they have to make it according to conscience," he explains, "Our job is to help them form their conscience and then make a decision."

According to the priest, some of his parishioners also welcomed their children through surrogates and the church would still welcome them with open arms. "If [Nicole] 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 explains, "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."

Nicole and Keith celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary on June 25 and Father Steiner is offering the couple to renew their wedding vows. "We have a whole ceremony, it is really just a matter of negotiating a date. We can organize it, no problem. I would be honored to perform the ceremony if they asked me, but they can choose whoever, the only restriction would be it would have to be a catholic priest," he says.

"The set of vows look and sound like any other wedding but the wording of the prayers is slightly different," the priest adds, "The prayers acknowledge the couple is already married and include thanksgiving for the years of marriage and prayers for their continued happiness and strength of the vows. In other words, it would be 'I Keith, renew to you Nicole the promises I made to you ten years ago.' To the ear it sounds very, very similar to the first time. 'I renew to you my promise to be honest and true to you in sickness and in health.' "

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