Because of something that's come up in another thread in the Resistance subforum, I wanted to bring up this topic.
What if a priest says something carefully, calculated to create a certain impression, but carefully avoids using certain words? When that mistaken impression is successfully created -- and reported to others -- the priest can truthfully say, "I never said that!" which is the very definition of plausible deniability.
It reminds me of a story in my local paper growing up -- a schoolboy taunted a black classmate with all kinds of language, but he claimed that he avoided using the N word. Sure enough, the taunted classmate punched the student and justified himself to the school authorities that "He called me a N*****!"
Now assuming the schoolboy in question was telling the truth, he nevertheless called him everything BUT that particular slur -- which amounts to the same thing.
Moral of the story: semantics don't matter. It's the substance of what you say that matters.