well, we are talking priests and directors here, but there still might be reasons they just declined to debate the matter, i guess.
I'm trying to perceive this in the light of the many definitions that have changed that drive me nuts, too; but i am having difficulty, because for instance "nation" can easily be shown to be a people, whereas "country" is basically a corporation that usually contains many nations...but Apocrypha has always meant "hidden" to me, and i have only ever seen "deuterocanonical" written, never spoken.