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TIME Inc. magazine December 23, 2013 issue Pope Francis named TIME magazine's Person of the Year Pope Francis, 76, was awarded the iconic title after the magazine revealed a short list of nominees on Wednesday. The finalists included Edward Snowden, Bashar al-Assad and Sen. Ted Cruz.Pope Francis, who was elected to lead the world's 1.6 billion Catholics last March, was named Wednesday as TIME's Person of the Year 2013.The magazine said Francis, 76, won the iconic title because he had changed the public perception of the 2,000-year-old institution drastically in such a short period of time."He really stood out to us as someone who has changed the tone and the perception and the focus of one of the world's largest institutions in an extraordinary way," Nancy Gibbs, the magazine's managing editor, said.The Vatican said the honor wasn't in winning the award, but in spreading a "positive" message.
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