Pope Francis says he doesn’t watch TV, surf Internet and misses walking to buy Pizza

Pope Francis says that he hasn't watched TV since 1990 after making a promise to the Virgin Mary.

Pope Francis is known to be a football fan, but he said he does not watch matches of his favourite team, San Lorenzo, and relies on a Swiss Guard to tell him the results and the tables.'

'I have not watched TV since 1990. It's a promise that I made the Virgin of Carmen on the night of 15 July 1990. I told myself: 'It's not for me'. Pope Francis told the Argentinian newspaper La Voz Del Pueblo.

The Pope, 78, said he reads one newspaper a day, La Repubblica, a left-leaning Italian daily and does not surf the internet despite being represented on Twitter.

Since his election, the pope said what he missed most about his life in Argentina was the freedom to walk through the streets unnoticed and getting an occasional pizza.

"To go outside; that much I long for – the tranquility of walking through the streets, or to go to a pizzeria to eat a good pizza," said Pope Francis. When the reporter suggested he could get pizza delivered to the Vatican, he added, "but it is not the same, the point is in walking there."