The 2009 TIME 100 Finalists
Cast your votes for the leaders, artists, entrepreneurs and thinkers who deserve a spot on this year's TIME 100. — By Brian Raftery
AGE: 81
OCCUPATION: Pontiff
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 2
PRO: His six-day U.S. visit last spring drew large crowds and re-energized the Catholic Church. Attempted to heal his strained relationship with the Islamic community, holding a Catholic-Muslim seminar at the Vatican.
CON: He recently reinstated (and then re-excommunicated) a Holocaust-denying bishop, a p.r. fiasco that outraged Jewish leaders and raised questions about Benedict's leadership.
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