In 1986, Calvo earned a Doctor of Canon Law degree at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome with a dissertation entitled Consultation and the Presbyterial Council: new emphasis in the ratio legis.
[2] After his ordination, Calvo was assigned as parochial vicar at Holy Name of Jesus Parish in San Francisco.
[2] On September 30, 2009, Calvo was named in a lawsuit by Reverend Richard DeMolen, the former pastor of Our Lady of Tahoe Catholic Parish in Zephyr Cove, Nevada.
Calvo had fired DeMolen because the priest had refused to remove a restraining order he filed against a diocesan deacon.
[3] On October 22, 2010, Calvo placed Reverend Tom Cronin from St. Mary’s in the Mountains Parish in Virginia City, Nevada, on leave due to a sexual abuse allegation from Missouri.
The sinister impalement depicts the Golden Gate Bridge, symbolizing the San Francisco Bay Area where he exercised his presbyteral ministry.