NEW ORLEANS (LA)
The Advocate
February 6, 2019
By Ramon Antonio Vargas
A Catholic priest allegedly masturbated while lotion was being rubbed on his feet by a New Orleans altar boy — an act which the cleric called “the best hand job” his feet had ever gotten.
Another priest would allegedly fondle the genitals of that same altar boy and other children while play-wrestling with them at that cleric’s family’s summer home in Mississippi.
Both priests, Michael Fraser and Paul Calamari, were named Nov. 2 on a list of Archdiocese of New Orleans clergy who had been stripped of their ministries years earlier after facing credible allegations of sexually abusing minors. And both were named in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Orleans Parish Civil District Court that accuses them of previously unreported sexual molestation that was unrelated to the abuse that landed them on the archdiocese’s list.
The unnamed plaintiff’s lawsuit is the latest legal volley fired at the local Catholic Church involving clerical abuse allegations dating back decades.
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