"The World's 50 Greatest Leaders list out today (March 20) is topped by the 77-year old Pope, who has in just over a year electrified the church and attracted legions of non-Catholic admirers by energetically setting a new direction. The Pope, who has washed the feet of a female Muslim prisoner, created a group of eight cardinals to advise him on reform, which a church historian calls the "most important step in the history of the church for the past 10 centuries.