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Rome, Italy (CNN) – A priest convicted of sexually abusing children – and the subsequent transfer from one place to another, the Pope was adopted when German Cardinal – was suspended on Monday announced his archdiocese.

The priest, identified only as M, was violating the terms dictated by him after his conviction, the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, said in a statement. He did not say what the violation was, but at the time of his conviction by a German court, he was ordered to pay a fine andnot work with children again.

The priest also higher resigned, the church said.

The pope – the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger – was approved to move the man Essen to Munich in the 1980s, but the diocese said the cardinal was never personally aware of the details of the case of man.

The priest was in therapy for having abused children when he was transferred from the diocese said.

The authorities said the priest was put into service at the church in 2008 and was no longer actively serving as a priest. He was a minister of the church for tourists.

The decision occurs as hundreds of alleged victims have been presented in Germany, saying priests abused. Some allege that the abuse was sexual, while others relate to physical violence such as slapping.

German lawyers representing alleged victims said that more than 300 cases across Germany.

Ursula Raue, who represents alleged victims of sexual abuse by a Jesuit order in Berlin, said that “there must have had around 1,000 calls, none of them less than half an hour.”

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“Many people still telling me that this is the first time anyone has heard or actually believed my story,” he said.

Although she is an attorney in this case describes itself as an intermediary between the alleged victims and the position of Jesuit Canisius College in Berlin. She has been investigating 160 cases in Germany, he said.

The Vatican has been working hard to defend the German-born Pope Benedict XVI as scandal spreads.

As the head of the Vatican doctrinal arm in Rome before becoming pope, Ratzinger, began to face intense activities, prosecute and appropriately punish the crimes in the context of ecclesiastical law, “said Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said Saturday.

“The line that followed was always a rigor and consistency in the treatment of the most difficult situations,” he said. If you where allegations could mean trouble for the Pope

Also Saturday, a senior Vatican officials said that the Catholic Church never indicted more than half of the approximately 3,000 priests accused of sexual abuse in the last decade.

There was “no evidence” in 60 percent of cases, mostly “for the advanced age of the accused,” said Bishop. Charles J. Scicluna, head of the Vatican office that investigates crimes of the Church considers more serious.

The priests, in the cases were subject to “administrative and disciplinary provisions,” such statements do not celebrate Mass or confession, Scicluna told The Avvenire, the newspaper of the Catholic bishops of Italy. ”

These cases include some of the more “sensational … you have captured the attention of the media,” he said, without disclosing further details.

Scicluna stressed the priests in question had not been absolved of their sins.

“It is true that there has been no formal condemnation, but if a person is forced to live a life of silence and prayer, then there must be a reason,” he said in an unusually revealing interview.

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Scicluna was talking only about the investigations of the church, not by civilian authorities.

The Vatican issued an official English translation of the remarks, which come as allegations of abuse of minors by priests spread throughout Western Europe.

The Irish Government supported damning report child abuse by priests led four bishops to resign in December, and Pope Benedict XVI plans to issue a formal statement or a pastoral letter on this before Easter.

The Netherlands, Austria and Germany are also facing new allegations of child abuse – including a diocese, once connected directly to a Popeof his brother, Georg Ratzinger.

The next few months can make more allegations of sexual abuse across Europe.

“It's like a tsunami or a large fire,” said the Rev. Andreas Batlogg, editor of the Jesuit journal Stimmen der Zeit German. “The estimated number of cases detected not seem to be much higher than yet known.”

Almost every day since the end of January, most Germans were presented with allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic priests, with nearly 170 reports of such abuses.

Two self-identified victims were connected to a German child's heart, which was led by the brother of Pope from 1964 to 1994.

Scicluna revelations about the number of complaints and the results come as the Vatican to show the struggle that is driving the problem adequately – and to protect the Pope.

Around 20 percent of priests accused of “graviora crimes” faced a full trial by church officials – many of which ended in convictions, he said. Ten percent requested a discharge from the priesthood, and Pope dismissed summarily 10 percent, Scicluna said.

A small minority of the 3,000 complaints against PRIESTS accused of abusing children, he added.

“In some sixty percent of cases interfered mainly sexual attraction towards adolescents of the same sex, another 30 percent were of heterosexual relations, and the remaining 10 percent were cases of pedophilia in the true sense of the term, he said.

Around 300 priests were accused of child abuse between 2001 and 2010, confirmed.

He said the problem was not “so widespread as was thought.”

“Please do not get me wrong. These are, of course, too,” he said.

There are about 400,000 Catholic priests worldwide, he said, in an attempt to show that the number of complaints against priests is relatively small.

Most complaints came from the United States, he said.

Scicluna said the Vatican should reconsider its policy not to prosecute all allegations of age.

The Vatican has a 10-statute of limitations on child abuse, from the date of the alleged victim reaches 18 years. Pope John Paul II entered politics in 2001 at the height of the scandals in Boston, Massachusetts, and Los Angeles, California.

“The limit of 10 years is not enough in this type of case,” said Scicluna. “It would be better to return to the previous system of” graviora delicto 'are not subject to [a] statue of limitations. ”

Fairy CNN Messi in Rome and Dan Gilgoff in Atlanta, Georgia, contributed to this report