{UAH} Pope Francis has not watched television since 1990
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Pope Francis has not watched television since 1990
The pontiff reveals he last watched television in 1990 and has to rely on the Swiss Guards to find out whether his beloved Argentinian football team won or lost
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By Nick Squires, Rome
2:11PM BST 25 May 2015
Pope Francis has revealed that he has not watched television for 25 years – not even the matches played by his beloved Buenos Aires football team.
The South American pontiff said he last switched on a TV in 1990 in an interview on Monday with an Argentinian newspaper.
After that he simply decided that "it was not for me", he told La Voz del Pueblo.
To find out whether his team, San Lorenzo, win or lose, he has to ask theSwiss Guards, his personal protection force and the Vatican's tiny army, who draw up a table of results for him each week.
The Pope also revealed that he reads only one newspaper – the Italian left-of-centre daily La Repubblica.
The revelation is unlikely to go down well with the editors of L'Osservatore Romano, the stodgy Vatican newspaper, or Avvenire, an equally sober tome owned by the Italian Bishops Conference.
Asked what he most missed about his old life, he cited the freedom to walk out into the streets and go to a pizzeria.
The Argentinian newspaper suggested that he simply order in a pizza to eat in the Vatican.
"Yes, but it's not the same. The nice thing is to go to there, to the pizzeria," he said.
The Pope - seen here when he was known as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio on a walk in Buenos Aires- says he misses being able to go out for a pizza.
The Pope - seen here when he was known as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio on a walk in Buenos Aires- says he misses being able to go out for a pizza."I've always been a keen walker. When I was a cardinal [in Buenos Aires] I used to love walking the streets".
He made the same complaint in March, when he was interviewed by a Mexican television channel on the second anniversary of his election as Pope.
Asked if he was able to sleep soundly, despite the burden of being the spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic Church, he said: "I sleep very deeply".
He goes to bed at around 9pm, reads for about an hour, and then sleeps from 10pm until 4am, when he gets up.
"It's my biological clock," he said, although he admitted that he has to compensate for such an early start with a siesta during the day of 40 minutes to an hour.
"I take off my shoes and I lie on my bed for a rest," he said.
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