are miracles real?

At a tender age I attended Marist Brothers high school. Hamilton. Our parents paid high fees & understood they were doing the best for their children.
Earlier this decade a Royal Commission & several court cases painted a very different picture. One of priests raping & sodomising boys, forcing boys to perform oral sex, molestation & indecent exposure. Arguably the worst offences were failure to report, punishing victims, hiding offenders within the Order, destroying evidence & lying to investigators. 
All children attending the school were traumatised, in later life many turned to sexual promiscuity, serial relationships & drug misuse, while many suffered acute mental health problems, several suicided. A classmate, Andrew Nash suicided after school, aged 12 years. 
The Principal Brother Christopher, Brothers John, Dominic, & Romuald were gaoled, while Patrick died before the law caught him. These men wore robes & crucifixes, so high & mighty perhaps assuming they would never be caught. 
I am now developing a more clear understanding of how goodness appears in humans. Goodness is not determined by external factors, nor by self praise or keeping good company. A good person is more likely to dress unremarkably, talk quietly, listen well & appear kind & sensitive.  

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