Pope Francis has been named 2013 Person of the Year by Time magazine - edging out NSA whistleblower and fugitive Edward Snowden into second place.
Pope Francis, 76, who was elected in March to lead the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, was announced as the winner this morning by Time magazine editor Nancy Gibbs.
The other five final contenders in the running for the prestigious honor were NSA whistleblower and fugitive Edward Snowden, singer Miley Cyrus, President of Syria Bashar Assad, Texas Tea Party champion Senator Ted Cruz and gay rights activist Edith Windsor whose Supreme Court victory led to the fall of the Defense of Marriage Act.
'So much of what he has done in the brief nine months in this office changed the tone of what’s coming out of the Vatican,' said Gibbs this morning about the person who Time editors dubbed 'The People's Pope'.
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