Bokor opposed the atheist communist ideology of the Hungarian state under Mátyás Rákosi, and continued to clash specifically on the topic of pacifism. The Hungarian State Church Office to the Bishop warned them that this position would not be tolerated, but Bokor held firm on this issue. The Hungarian government viewed the Bokor community as an illegal anti-state organization, and sentenced Bulányi to life imprisonment in 1952. He escaped in October 1956 during the Hungarian revolution and became a parish priest in downtown Budapest. However, he was arrested again in April 1958 and later released again in 1960. At this time, he was one of the most controversial figures in Hungarian Catholicism. He then worked as an unskilled laborer while he wrote a book, "Seek the kingdom of God!"