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Real Time's Maher takes on the Catholic Church in New Rules

By M&C Smallscreen Apr 12, 2008, 19:34 GMT

04/20/2007 - Bill Maher - Bill Maher Performs at the Hard Rock Hotel - April 20, 2007 - Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Las Vegas, NV, USA © Erik Kabik / PR Photos

On HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher last night, Bill welcomed actor Jason Alexander, counter-terrorism expert Richard Clarke, and journalist Dana Priest.

He was joined via satellite feed by biologist Richard Dawkins and Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) - who supported an immediate pull out of Iraq, like GOP candidate for president, Ron Paul

The Washington Post's Dana Priest, part of the panel last night, has won two Pulitzers for exposing the Bush Administration for various crimes.

Her Pulitzers were for mistreatment of Vets at Walter Reed Hospital LINK and the CIA's Use of Torture, Prisoner Abuse, Secret Prisons and Wrongful Imprisonment in Bush's "War on Terror"  LINK

But it was the New Rules segnent that Maher made his point of the night, that whether it is crazy isolated religious cults or the behemoth established Catholic Church, sexual crimes against women and especially children are hidden and enabled by corrupt power structures and byzantine inside politics.  Watch: