TIME MAG PERSON OF THE YEAR

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2013 PERSON OF THE YEAR...



Time's managing editor Nancy Gibbs explained the magazine's choice on Wednesday, calling the Pope "a new voice of conscience."

"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," she said. "When he kisses the face of a disfigured man or washes the feet of a Muslim woman, the image resonates far beyond the boundaries of the Catholic Church."

And the runners-up:

1. Edward Snowden (NSA Leaker)
2. Edith Windsor (gay marriage pioneer)
3. Bashar Al-Assad (Syrian President)
4. Ted Cruz (Senator)