Time Person of the Year covers for Rudy Giuliani, St. John Paul II, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, John F. Kennedy, Pope Francis and the astronauts of the Apollo 8.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are Time magazine’s Person of the Year! Disregarding Time’s terrible grammar (even Christians don’t call the Trinity one person, you philistines), it is a moment Catholics should be proud of, for it is only the 15th time in 108 years that a papist took the crown.
Who cares? Catholics do. We’re always looking for that little boost in U.S. society that makes us feel fully American, as true-red-white-and-blue as our Protestant brethren. A Catholic president is the tops, the Coliseum, the Louvre museum. But for him to be Person of the Year? Francis Albert himself was never Person of the Year. Nor Fulton Sheen! “But you had a Catholic president in 1960,” some might complain, “and the front-runner in 1968!” Yes, true. They were both murdered.
Time magazine s 2020 Person of the Year.
The president-elect and vice-president elect were given the honor during the publication s
Time Person of the Year event on Thursday, marking a historic year. Harris is the first Vice President to be included in the choice for Person of the Year.
In a surprising turnout, the two beat out Donald Trump and Mike Pence during the November elections.
“This moment was one of those do-or-die moments. Had Trump won, I think we would have changed the nature of who we areas a country for a long time, Biden tells
Time.
The former VP also touches on why he decided to choose Harris as his running mate, explaining, There were a number of extremely qualified women that I had called and asked whether they would be willing to be considered. She is straight as an arrow. She is really, really bright. She is tough.
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Biden AND Kamala Harris are awarded Time Person of the Year for 2020 over Trump and frontline COVID workers - despite ONLY the president-elect being on the shortlist
Time magazine s 2020 Person of the Year was announced as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on Thursday
Time said they chose the pair for their victory over Trump, in which they ousted an incumbent president for just the 10th time in US history
Harris is the first Vice President-elect to be named Person of the Year
Frontline health care workers, Anthony Fauci, the racial justice movement and President Trump were among the runners up
Fox News contributor Joe Concha tells America s Newsroom that Time magazine is a laughable shell of itself for giving Biden, Harris the award because it is the politically correct thing to do and what their readers wanted.
Time magazine has come under fire over its selection of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as its Persons of the Year, with critics wondering why the honor wasn t bestowed on physicians and vaccine developers battling the coronavirus.
Fox News contributor Joe Concha, whose wife is an emergency room doctor, told America s Newsroom Friday it was clear frontline health care workers were more deserving than Biden and Harris, the 2020 Democratic ticket that defeated President Trump in November.