In this thesis we are led by the assumption that the mass media inevitably adopt the characteristics of the society in which they operate. Such dynamics is probably most visible in the totalitarian regimes and hence the first part of the dissertation analyses the outlines of the soviet communist theory of the press in the media and propaganda system of the Independent State of Croatia. It illuminates the sociopolitical context in which the media operated, it presents the key features of the censorial and propagandistic machine of the governance regime, and in the aspect of deontology it explains the position of editors and journalists in the editorial offices of the secular and religious press of the era. The main objective of the investigative part of the dissertation was to identify which tenets of the soviet communist theory, that is, which forms and methods of censorship were manifested when informing about public appearances of Alojzije Stepinac, the archbishop of Zagreb. Therefore the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the content of public appearances of archbishop Stepinac from 1941 to 1945 had to be done firstly. Out of ninety-eight (98) available statements, sixty-three (63) have been sorted out, and from these you can read the relation towards the social circumstances of the time, absurdity of the war and its pernicious consequences, futility of the attempts of setting up new social orders which do not obey God's laws and the relation towards the racist ideology. It has been concluded that in his public appearances during the rule of the Independent State Of Croatia archbishop Stepinac often very clearly and unambiguously addressed the issue or a certain social phenomenon and thus explicitly reported unacceptable policies of the regime. Finally, on the basis of archbishop Stepinac's singled out public appearances, the content of six (6) relevant secular and religious newspapers of the time has been analysed quantitatively and qualitatively. The results have shown that the relation of the secular and religious press towards Stepinac's public appearances depended considerably upon their dominant subject. Censorship actions have mostly been noticed when informing on appearances that thematized the establishment of new social orders which do not obey God's laws and that of racist ideology. This dynamics is present mainly in the analysed secular press. These patterns of the editorial policy cannot be found in the religious press, more precisely at Katolički list, at least when it comes to archbishop Stepinac's public appearances.