NAIROBI, Kenya | When Father Michael Mithamo King ori lost his sight as a deacon, he thought his dream of becoming a priest was lost. But nothing is impossible for God,
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Father Michael Mithamo King ori embraces Archbishop Anthony Muheria during his Jan. 14, 2023, ordination Mass. / Credit: Nyeri ArchdioceseACI Africa, Jan 17, 2023 / 11:00 am (CNA).The ordination of the first-ever blind Catholic priest in Kenya will help show people that "disability is not inability," the archbishop of Nyeri has said.In a message shared with ACI Africa, CNA s news partner in Africa, Archbishop Anthony Muheria of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nyeri reflected on the Jan. 14 ordination to the priesthood of Father Michael Mithamo King ori, who lost his sight while serving as a deacon."This new priest, Father Michael, will help us to appreciate, in a very new way, the capacity, the enabledness, of people who may have a deficiency of ability because of [their] situations," Muheria said in the Jan. 15 message a day after presiding over the priestly ordination of the Kenyan priest.The archbishop added that the priestly ordination of Mithamo King ori "is