 In 1936, he returned to Slovenia, where he was employed as professor of French language at the Bežigrad Grammar School.In 1937, Kocbek wrote an article called "Reflections on Spain" ("Premišljevanje o Španiji"), in which he attacked the Spanish clergy who supported the pro-Fascist forces of general Francisco Franco in the Spanish civil war.The article, published in the liberal Catholic magazine "Dom in svet", caused a scandal among Slovene Catholics, which reached its height by the condemnation of Kocbek's positions by the bishop of Ljubljana, Gregorij Rožman.