Time Person of the Year: Pope Francis

Time ^ | December 11, 2013 | Howard Chua-Eoan and Elizabeth Dias

[NYer]

Ping!

[MrB]

Bash Reaganomics => Person of the Year!

[gymbeau]

My sentiments, too.

cheers
Jim

[annalex]

Hm.

Well, for what this is worth, congratulations, Your Holiness.

[sunmars]

For once i can fully agree with this, a man of complete compassion and love and an example of how things should be done.

[ArtDodger]

Wow! My money had been on them picking Assad or one of the school shooters.

[rktman]

That’s nice.

But was the necklace man from south Africa too soon to make the cover? And what happened to tray-boy-eeee? I know he died the previous year but the trial was this year and the “lack” of just-us for the innocent choir boy should have at least had him in the running.

[Alex Murphy]

Bash Reaganomics => Person of the Year!

Gets conservatives in a tizzy => Person of the Year!

[MrB]

That also seems to be one of the major criteria of the left for “good personhood” - can you cause angst among traditionalists? Good!

[flaglady47]

“For once i can fully agree with this, a man of complete compassion and love and an example of how things should be done.”

If you like Socialists. Bring back Benedict XVI!!!

[DarkSavant]

And so Francis signals great change while giving the same answers to the uncomfortable questions. On the question of female priests: “We need to work harder to develop a profound theology of the woman.” Which means: no. No to abortion, because an individual life begins at conception. No to gay marriage, because the male-female bond is established by God. “The teaching of the church … is clear,” he has said, “and I am a son of the church, but”—and here he adds his prayer for himself—“it is not necessary to talk about those issues all the time.”

If that prayer should be answered, if somehow by his own vivid example Francis could bring the church into a new relationship with its critics and dissidents—agreeing to disagree about issues that divide them while cooperating in the urgent mission of spreading mercy—he might unleash untold good. “Argue less, accomplish more” could be a healing motto for our times. We have a glut of problems to tackle. Francis says by example, Stop bickering and roll up your sleeves. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good—an important thing for the world to hear, especially from a man who holds an office deemed infallible.

He's being praised because the folks at Time believe he's diluting fundamental moral principles.

[MinuteGal]

Is it true that Snowden was the runner-up?

Leni

[sarasota]

Yes.

[vetvetdoug]

I can't wait for Ann Barnhardt’s response about this.

[NYer]

He's being praised because the folks at Time believe he's diluting fundamental moral principles.

Let them have their delusions. Most in the media are secularists with little or no understanding of christianity or any other religion.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Yes, I think they were looking to create a narrative to push the destruction of Capitalism that could last beyond Obama the Lame Duck.

And either wittingly or unwittingly, the Pope has walked right into that.

[Nevadan]

I haven’t seen the list of possible candidates, but I would be very surprised if Trayvon was not on the list.

[gymbeau]

That wouldn’t surprise me a whit.

Or even a half-whit!
cheers
Jim

[ken5050]

No disrespect meant to his Holiness, but when I read who the other finalists were, I’m reminded of the Rodney Dangerfield line that “he didn’t want to belong to ANY club that would let him join..”