Word: kiwanuka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most Rev. Joseph Kiwanuka is everything that a bishop should be. His dignity and calm inspire automatic respect, his words are simple and wise, his broad smile is warm with charity for men. But he might still be just plain Joe Kiwanuka, African tribesman, if he had not happened to be reading a book one day when a Roman Catholic missionary priest came to visit his native village...
Last August, on a visit to Rome, Bishop Kiwanuka told the Pope that there were many others in Uganda who wanted to be priests, but not enough seminary facilities to train them. Africa's other bishops, being white, had friends and well-wishers outside the country who would help support seminaries, but he knew no non-Africans to whom he could turn for funds. "Go to America and make friends there," replied the Pope. "You will find the Americans are very good, very kind, and very charitable...