New LA priests: Meet Louie Reyes

Age: 35
Hometown: Salinas
Home parish: St. Mark’s UCSB Newman Center, Goleta
Parish assignment: St. Philip Neri Church, Lynwood

"There’s no need to tell Louie Reyes that one person, one priest, can change the course of someone’s life. He knows that. He’s lived it. It happened while Reyes was attending UC Santa Barbara, a university well-known, as he said, as “a party school.” And Reyes admitted he took part in what might be described as a somewhat Augustinian existence..."