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Quad-City Times
Deirdre Cox Baker dbaker@qctimes.com
Three years after charges of clergy abuse were brought against him, the Rev. John Stack has been cleared by the Vatican and will work again in the Diocese of Davenport.
The findings were announced Friday by Deacon David Montgomery, the diocese’s spokesman.
Stack was accused in 2013 of inappropriately touching minors in the 1980s. The charge was reported to the Scott County Attorney’s Office, the process the diocese now uses in abuse cases. Stack was removed from his ministry at Mercy Medical Center in Clinton while the investigation went forward.
Bishop Martin Amos petitioned the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican, requesting that Stack’s case be brought to trial before three judges, none of whom is from the Davenport diocese.
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