Priest Enters Not-Guilty Plea Claiming Molesting Students Was God’s Tough Love Sacrament

CHRISTCHURCH, NZ – Philip Andrew Rogers, a former staff member at St Bede’s College, entered a not-guilty plea to charges of sexually abusing four boys, asserting that his actions were divinely ordained. Rogers, facing 11 counts tied to incidents at the prestigious Catholic boys’ school, told a stunned judge that the alleged molestations were not crimes but rather a misunderstood “sacrament of God’s tough love.”