Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Time magazine announced today that it has selected Pope Francis as its 'Person of the Year' for 2013.
Managing Editor Nancy Gibbs explained why the magazine chose Pope Francis as its most influential person of the year. "Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly--young and old, faithful and cynical--as has Pope Francis. 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."