As member of Catholic Theological Union since 1968,[3] Pawlikowski was appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council in 1980 by then-President Jimmy Carter. He was subsequently re-appointed by Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. As of 2008, he chaired the council's Subcommittee on Church Relations and served on its executive committee, the Committee on Conscience, and academic committee.[1] Pawlikowski also served as president of the International Council of Christians and Jews (ICCJ) from 2002 to 2008.[4]
Pawlikowski has been critical of John Cornwell's book Hitler's Pope,[8][9] which criticizes the record of Pope Pius XII and the Vatican during the Holocaust. Pawlikowski characterized Cornwall's book as "full of exaggerated claims and deceptions," "a work of deeply flawed scholarship" that "presents only the evidence that suggests [Cornwall's] predetermined view."[10]
Awards
"The Righteous Among the Nations Award" from the Holocaust Museum in Detroit (1986)
^John T. Pawlikowski, O.S.M., "Christian-Jewish Relations and Vatican II," in Vatican II: Fifty Personal Stories, Rev. and expanded ed., eds. William Madges and Michael J. Daley (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2012), 212.