ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses some of the major activities of the Family of Radio Station Mary (FRM) from within its larger repertoire of actions, as well as its history, mobilizing structures and major framing practices. It argues that the FRM significantly disrupts the otherwise relatively harmonious relations between the Catholic Church and Polish state. Apart from shedding light on the key aspects of church and state relations in post-communist Poland the chapter aims at analysing the phenomenon of the FRM. Before the FRM and its influence on church and state relations in Poland is assessed with the help of the analytical lenses of the new social movements theory, it is important to draw a picture of the larger socio-religious and socio-political structures within which the FRM was born and now operates. Researchers analysing the discourse of the FRM usually point out as its two key features: the promotion of a Manichean world view and tribalism.
