Word from the Cloisters

15 July 2026, The Tablet

John Pawlikowski OSM, who died on 27 June, served two terms as president of the International Council of Christians and Jews and was one of the foremost Catholic theologians of Christian-Jewish relations. He was among the principal architects of the Church’s renewed relationship with the Jewish people. Born in Chicago in 1940, he entered the Servite Order in 1958. He was a founding faculty member of the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Among the generations of students and religious leaders he formed was Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo, who studied Catholic Social Teaching under him at CTU.

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