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This new political party in Poland wants to ‘re-Christianise’ Europe

Father Rydzyk controls a media empire accused of amplifying homophobic and sexist views. Now, he’s seen as the driving force behind a new party aiming at the European Parliament elections in May

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Placard supporting the Radio Maryja station in Father Rydzyk’s Catholic-nationalist media empire, Krakow, Poland, 2013 | Flickr/Piotr Drabik. CC BY 2.0. Some rights reserved

Father Tadeusz Rydzyk, a controversial Catholic priest and éminence grise of the Polish political scene, is seen as the driving force behind a new party aiming to put forward candidates for the upcoming European Parliament elections.