At 3 a.m.: What the Pope does on the Internet

Vatican – What does the Pope actually do when he can’t sleep at night and even praying no longer helps? Internet users accidentally “discovered” Leo XIV.

Sometimes Pope Leo XIV seems nights without Sleep to spend. But what is the Pope doing in the Vatican at 3 a.m.? Is he counting sheep or is he picking up the rosary?

This is what internet users wanted to know from the head of the Catholic Church. They noticed that the 70-year-old was awake at night and then used a certain app.

Pope Leo XIV uses this app intensively

According to media reports Pope Leo returned to the language learning app Duolingo after a year-long break. There he is active under his account as user “Robert”. And in fact it is said to be the Pontiff Robert Prevost, who has been learning German again for around three months, reports the Italian newspaper “La Repubblica”, among others.

His brother, John Prevost, has now also confirmed that the Pope learns foreign languages ​​at night. He told the Catholic online newspaper “National Catholic Reporter”: “He is currently learning German.”

Pope speaks several languages ​​fluently

Pope Leo is considered a linguistic talent. In addition to his native English, he is also fluent in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. To this one Education His years of work as a missionary and bishop in Peru may have contributed. Because the Pope always tries to speak in the language of the people.

And now he already knows a few words of German. He already has some initial knowledge: at the World Youth Meeting in Rome this year, he greeted the young people at the closing service with, among other things, “Good morning”.