HOUSTON (TX)
KTRK
February 28, 2018
By Jessica Willey
A married Catholic priest who was ordained in Houston is facing felony charges, accused of attacking his wife for more than 18 hours.
Reverend Luke Reese, 49, was ordained at The Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham near Spring Valley in 2016. He then moved to Indiana where police say last September, he kidnapped, beat and terrorized his wife of 25 years.
Reese is a former Anglican priest who is now of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, a Houston-based Catholic religious order for former Anglicans in the United States. As such, they are allowed to be married. Reese and his wife had seven children.
According to court records, after he learned his wife was having an affair, he kidnapped her, “driving her all over the city,” “hitting her, yelling at her and blaring heavy metal music.”
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