"Pope Francis has the features of a manager of the 21st century," said Juan Vicente Boo, journalist and correspondent of the ABC newspaper in the Vatican. He participated in a lecture in the Schools Eclesiasticas on the occasion of his presence in Pamplona to present his book El papa de la alegría (The Pope of Joy). The professor of the School of TheologyRamiro Pellitero was in charge of directing the colloquium and introducing speaker.

The journalist, who is also an expert in Economics, highlighted the most outstanding features of Pope Francis, whom he met in 2001 when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires. Among them, he highlighted that "he governs from outside the office and knows how to swim in turbulent waters, like a good manager of the 21st Century", and he emphasized the "amazing admiration" that the great North American economic press has had for him from the beginning.

He explained that the main secret of the Supreme Pontiff to reach people is the "coherence between what he thinks and what he does, in tune with the Gospel". And he recalled that "he does not watch television, does not use a cell phone or a tablet and yet he is the person who has the best reputation on the Internet".

Juan Vicente Boo realized that joy was one of the essential axes of his personality, not only because his first documents focused on the joy of the Gospel, the family and creation, but also because "when the Pope approaches, he smiles at you with gigantic joy and if you walk behind him you realize that people's faces light up in response to his joy".

Among other of the Pope's virtues, the journalist defended his enormous trust in the Holy Spirit, his ability to ask forgiveness when he makes mistakes and his enormous willingness to work: "He reaches the age of 80 with a capacity for work that would exhaust two people of forty".