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We all know Tom Cruise as one of the most famous faces of the Church of Scientology, but long before he join the controversial religion, he had plans to be a priest.

The young Cruise, then known as Tommy Mapother, was  an introverted, lonely brown-haired boy who was a devout Catholic.

But according to a new report in the NY Daily News, the actor’s infautation with the religion came to an end when he was apparently asked to leave the St. Francis Seminary School in Cincinnati for stealing booze.

Cruise’s closest buddy from the seminary, Shane Dempler, said Cruise was very serious about becoming a priest.

“He had a very strong Catholic faith,” Dempler said. “We went to Mass, spent time in the chapel and enjoyed hearing stories from the priests. We thought the priests had a great lifestyle and we were really interested in priesthood.

While priests at the seminary have said Cruise chose to leave the school when his family relocated again, this time to New Jersey, Dempler remembers it differently.

He and Cruise weren’t troublemakers, but they liked to sneak out and smoke cigarettes.

“Standard stuff for a kid on a Saturday night,” Dempler said.

But one night the duo got the bright idea of stealing some liquor from their Franciscan fathers, who were planning a celebration, Dempler said.

Dempler sneaked into the room where the liquor was stashed and threw bottle after bottle out the window to Cruise, waiting below.

“(I) tossed about six, most broke, but we managed to get a couple and hide them in the nearby woods,” said Dempler. “The priests didn’t even realize until some of the other boys found out about our plan and snuck into the woods and got drunk. They were caught staggering down the road to the seminary and forced to confess.

“The school wrote a letter to our parents saying they liked us both, but would prefer if we didn’t return. So we weren’t kicked out, just preferred not to go,” said Dempler.

Cruise, according to the newspaper, could not be reached for comment about the incident.