 From 1939 on, he worked on the editorial staff of the Jesuit journal "Stimmen der Zeit" ("Voices of the Times"), until the Nazis suppressed it in April 1941.He was then assigned as rector of St. Georg Church, part of Heilig-Blut Parish in the Munich neighbourhood Bogenhausen.He preached both at Heilig-Blut and St. Georg, and also secretly helped Jews who were escaping to Switzerland through the underground.