One of the world’s leading magazine, TIME, released on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 the announcement that Pope Francis is this year’s “Person of the Year.” According to TIME, in nine months in office the head of the Catholic Church had become a new voice of conscience.
Time Managing editor Nancy Gibbs was quoted as saying “For pulling the papacy out of the palace and into the streets, for committing the world’s largest church to confronting its deepest needs and for balancing judgment with mercy, Pope Francis is TIME’s 2013 Person of the Year,” Nancy Gibbs wrote.
The magazine editor added further that “Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly — young and old, faithful and cynical — as Pope Francis” Time stated
“In his nine months in office, he has placed himself at the very center of the central conversations of our time: about wealth and poverty, fairness and justice, transparency, modernity, globalization, the role of women, the nature of marriage, the temptations of power.”
The runner-up for this year’s Time Person of the Year was NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, he has been granted asylum in Russia with whom Time published an exclusive interview with him.
Other notable figures as 2013 Time Person of the Year Runner-Up are Edith Windsor, Bashar (–foul word(s) removed–)ad and Ted Cruz.
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— TIME.com (@TIME) December 11, 2013
