GREENSBURG, PA – Rev. John T. Pawlikowski, O.S.M., Ph.D. Professor of Social Ethics and Co-Director of the Catholic-Jewish Center at the Cardinal Joseph Bernardin Center, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, will be speaking at Seton Hill on Friday, March 7, 2003.

Lecture Schedule:

9 to 9:50 a.m. "The Importance of Jesus' Jewish Background in Understanding the Gospels, especially the Passion Narratives"

Noon to 12:50 p.m. "Christian-Jewish Relations—Historical Overview"

3 to 5 p.m. " ‘We Remember’ and Catholic-Jewish Relations in Poland”

All lectures will take place in Room 308 of the Administration Building on Seton Hill’s campus.

A Priest of the Servite Order, Rev. Pawlikowski is the author/editor of more than fifteen books, including The Challenge of the Holocaust for Christian Theology and Jesus and the Theology of Israel. He is the President and Chair of the Theology Committee of the International Council of Christians & Jews and is a member of the Catholic Theological Society, the American Academy of Religion, and the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences, among others. Rev. Pawlikowski was appointed by President Carter to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council in 1980 and has been re-appointed to three successive terms by Presidents Bush and Clinton.

Rev. Pawlikowski’s lectures at Seton Hill are sponsored cooperatively by the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education, the Religious Studies/Theology, History/Political Science Departments and Seton Hill’s Mission Effectiveness Committee.

All lectures are free and open to the public. Please call the Center to register: 724-830-1033. For more information about the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education, please visit ncche@setonhill.edu.