POPE FRANCIS NAMED TIME PERSON OF THE YEAR

Many thought that that only logical choice for Time Person Of The Year would be Edward Snowden, but the popular new pope is the the pick.

Here's Nancy Gibbs of Time:

"At a time when the limits of leadership are being tested in so many places, along comes a man with no army or weapons, no kingdom beyond a tight fist of land in the middle of Rome but with the immense wealth and weight of history behind him, to throw down a challenge. The world is getting smaller; individual voices are getting louder; technology is turning virtue viral, so his pulpit is visible to the ends of the earth. 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."

Here's the cover: