Suppressed Culture is the obvious category for cultural products deemed subversive by the regime. Print and electronic media openly critical of the Marcos before 1972 were closed down by Proclamation 1081. Newspapers and magazines, the Marcos-funded Daily Express exempted, were banned until a later time when the Martial Law authorities had determined which publishers would submit to the guidelines issued by Government. Stories, poems, songs, plays and artworks produced by writers and artists of national democratic cultural organizations like PAKSA (Panulat para sa Kaunlaran ng Sambayanan), Panday-Sining (cultural arm of the Kabataang Makabayan), Gintong Silahis (cultural arm of the Samahan ng Demokratikong Kabataan), Kamanyang Players (cultural group of the Philippine College of Commerce), NPAA (Nagkakaisang Progresibong Artista at Arkitekto), and Sining-Bayan, could no longer be freely disseminated without risk of arrest by the police and the military.
Matututunan ng mga katutubo ang mga dasal sa pamamagitan ng tradisyong pabigkas. Ibig sabihin, sa simbahan sa oras ng katesismo, isinasaulo ang mga dasal at paulit-ulit na bibigkasin hanggang ang mga ito ay maging bahagi na ng kamalayan ng mga binyagan. Sa unang hati ng siglo 17, isang misyonerong nagngangalang Pedro de Herrera ang nagsalin ng mga pagninilay tuwing may Santo Exercicio, na nalimbag bilang Meditaciones, cun manga mahal na pagninilay na sadia sa Santong pag Eexercicios (1645).