He did, however, fail to do what he could. He remained too passive.
But my point remains.
The Vatican was still extremely wealthy after the war.
Had the Pope done what he could, the Vatican would have been broke.
He obviously did not do what he could.
I was addressing the issue of the Pope's actions specifically because he claims to be more than a mere human being.
Let's discuss and hopefully settle this.
All 265 Popes are just mere men and never claimed to be more than a mere human being.
Just like the Old Testament prophets (Hebrew, Nabi) were mere men, so are the Popes. The Prophets were chosen by God to speak in His name, in other words, the prophets were God's spokesmen. The prophets were trying to lead the people to God by speaking God's truth.
Same thing basically with the Popes and with papal infallibility which is based on Christ's mandate. In St. Matthew 28-19-20, Christ instructed the Church to preach and teach everything He taught until the end of the world and promised the protection of the Holy Spirit "to guide them to all truth".
Christ's mandate and promise guarantee the Church will never fall away from His teachings, 1Tim. 3:15, even if individual Catholics might. This inability of the Chruch to teach error is infallibility; it is a negative protection.And Christ provided the Chruch a method by which it could preserve intatact all His teachings. Infallibility was a divine prerogative given by Christ to St.Peter and through apostolic succession of bishops to keep them from error in teaching His faith and morals in its fullness.
The infallibility of the Pope simply means that IN his official teachings or definitions, PROVIDED he speaks ex cathedra, that is as successor of St.Peter, is Vicar of Christ, the temporal head of the Church AND in matters of faith and morals AND with the intention of binding all the faithful, God will not allow him to define erroneous doctrine. The Pope is infallible only when all these conditions I just enumerated are present.
Infallibility is rarely used. Some infallible pronouncements in relatively recent times were Bl. Pius IX's definition of the Immaculate Conception in 1854, in 1950 Pope Pius XII's infallible declaration of the dogma of the Assumption of Mary, body and soul into heaven at the end of her earthly life and the last was in 1994 when Bl. Pope John Paul II declared that only men can be ordained to the priesthood.
Not all of the Pope's encyclicals are infallible in themselves but they may contain infallible doctrines that the Church has taught from the beginning. Humanae Vitae comes to mind here. Also, none of the 16 documents which came out of Vatican II are infallible documents.
Again, infallibility is a Divine charism that attaches in a special way to the Pope only when he speaks in his official capacity as shepherd and teacher to confirm the faithful in their Faith and morals.The Holy Spirit prevents a Pope from officially teaching error and this charism follows from the existence of the Church itself. If the Church is to do what Christ said it would and not do what He said it would not do such as have the gates of Hell prevail against it, ----then it must be able to teach infallibly.
For men to be saved they must know what is to be believed. They must have a perfectly steady rock to build upon when it comes to official teaching in faith and morals. That's why papal infallibility exists.
Simple equation is: if someone claims to be more than others, he also has to do more than others. And someone who claims to be G-d's representative and who claims inerrability on religious questions the Pope should have the faith really to do what he can to do the right thing.
Jews are fallible, all of them. But the Pope claims infallibility. He should be infallible or admit that he is a man like everybody else.
Infallibility has nothing to do with Pope Pius XII during WWII.
Again,
The abundant, incontestable documentary evidence proves beyond doubt that Pope Pius XII labored without pause for peace, assisted the Allies, was not silent, opposed Nazi racial atrocities, and that the Church fed, sheltered, and clothed victims of war, especially Jews.
As far as the Pope having to do more than others,
I know of no world leader who did more to resist the Nazis, rescue Jews and warn the world of the horrors of Nazism and Communism than this great man.