Following another so called „pilgrimage of the national movements to Jasna Góra” in which 1500 member of rigth-wing nationalist associations took part, a number of organisations including the Open Republic directed an open letter to Pope Francis. The signatories of the letter call on the Pontiff to „do everything in his power  to ensure that such festivals of hatred will never again take place in Jasna Góra or in any other Polish catholic church.” The letter emphasises the fact that the recent “pilgrimage”, was “…not the first time such profanation of the sanctuary took place, turning it into an arena for spreading hatred against certain social groups as well as certain political, ethnic, religious and national segments of society…”