Visiting scholar Rev. John T. Pawlikowski will speak at Seton Hill University on Wednesday, October 22, 2008. His lecture, “Which Paul Are We Celebrating During the Jubilee?” (dedicated to the Jubilee Year of the Apostle Paul, June 28, 2008 – June 28, 2009) is free and open to the public. This lecture, sponsored by the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education at Seton Hill, will begin at 7 p.m. in the Greensburg Room on Seton Hill’s Greensburg, Pa. campus. Parking for the event will be in the Caritas Christi parking lot above Seton Hill’s campus; free shuttle service to the event will be provided. For more information, please contact the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education at 724-830-1033 or ncche@setonhill.edu.

Rev. John T. Pawlikowski, OSM, Ph.D., is the professor of social ethics and director of the Catholic-Jewish Studies program at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, Ill. A leading figure in the Christian-Jewish dialogue, he is past president of the International Council of Christians and Jews and author of “Christ in the Light of the Christian Jewish Dialogue” and co-editor with Judith Banki of “Ethics in the Shadow of the Holocaust.” Rev. Pawlikowski serves as chair of the Advisory Board of the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education, and in 2005 the Center honored him with the Nostra Aetate Award for distinguished and scholarly work in Catholic-Jewish relations. In addition to his public lecture, Rev. Pawlikowski will serve as guest lecturer in several Seton Hill classes on October 22 and 23.

The National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education (NCCHE) was established on the campus of Seton Hill University in 1987. Seton Hill initiated this national Catholic movement toward Holocaust studies in response to the urging of Pope John Paul II to recognize the significance of the Shoah, the Holocaust, and to "promote the necessary historical and religious studies on this event which concerns the whole of humanity today." The NCCHE has as its primary purpose the broad dissemination of scholarship on the root causes of anti-Semitism, its relation to the Holocaust and the implications from the Catholic perspective of both for today's world. Toward this end the Center is committed to equipping scholars, especially those at Catholic institutions, to enter into serious discussion on the causes of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust; shaping appropriate curricular responses at Catholic institutions and other educational sites; sustaining Seton Hill's Catholic Institute for Holocaust Studies in Israel through a cooperative program with Yad Vashem, the Isaac Jacob Institute for Religious Law and Hebrew University; encouraging scholarship and research through conferences, publications, workshops for educators, and similar activities; sponsoring local events on the Holocaust and related topics in the University and the community and enhancing Catholic-Jewish relations. Please contact the NCCHE by calling 724-830-1033 or sending an e-mail to ncche@setonhill.edu.