Pope Francis Named Time Person Of The Year 2013

Time magazine has named Pope Francis as its Person of the Year. The US magazine chose the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church as the most influential figure of the year in its annual review. The 76-year-old Argentinian was picked from a varied shortlist that included Syrian leader Bashar al Assad, NSA leaker Edward Snowden, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and twerking superstar Miley Cyrus.
Francis became the 266th leader of the world's Roman Catholics in March this year, following the surprise abdication of Benedict XVI. Time called the Pope a "septuagenarian superstar" and said he had taken "the name of a humble saint and then called for a church of healing". "Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical - as Pope Francis. "In his nine months in office, he has placed himself at the very centre of the central conversations of our time: about wealth and poverty, fairness and justice, transparency, modernity, globalisation, the role of women, the nature of marriage, the temptations of power."
Sky News.