Time Magazine announced Pope Francis as the Person of the Year on Wednesday, December 11. The highest leader of the Catholic Church was chosen for the reason that in the span of nine months, he has become the new voice of conscience.
The Pope has been known for his great humility despite the fact that he has immense power. He has long been committed to the poor even before he assumed leadership over 1.2 billion Catholics. He has become an international figure for “wealth and poverty, fairness and justice, transparency, modernity, globalization, the role of women, the nature of marriage, and the temptations of power.”
"What makes this Pope so important is the speed with which he has captured the imaginations of millions who had given up on hoping for the church at all," Time said in its cover story.
"In a matter of months, Francis has elevated the healing mission of the church — the church as servant and comforter of hurting people in an often harsh world — above the doctrinal police work so important to his recent predecessors."
"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," managing editor, Nancy Gibbs, explained the magazine’s choice.
The People’s Pope has beaten NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Earlier this week, Time narrowed the finalists down to five, which included Syrian president Bashar Assad, Texas senator Ted Cruz and gay rights activist Edith Windsor.
Each year, the distinguished US magazine picks the Person of the Year with the category that includes someone who has the biggest influence in the world and news.
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