Abstract
After the collapse of Communism, social and political conditions in Poland led to the development of Roman Catholic fundamentalism, generated by the Polish Episcopate, which aspires to play a political role, strengthened by ‘the Polish Pope’. This paper focuses on the Church's current political campaigns on abortion, contraception and sex education. It shows how Catholic women's groups, who are against gender equality, participate in meetings where instruments for implementing gender equality are being discussed and promoted. Thus, Catholic fundamentalism is being mainstreamed partly by women working actively against women's rights. Some politicians and policymakers are now calling for cooperation between feminist women's groups and fundamentalist women's groups as an excuse for inaction among those who do not want an active feminist women's movement to influence public life.
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