Leo XIV studied under a leader in Jewish-Catholic relations

(JTA) — Cardinal Robert Prevost, who was just elected as Pope Leo XIV, studied under a pioneer in Jewish-Catholic relations when he attended seminary in Chicago.

The Rev. John T. Pawlikowski, who taught for nearly half a century at the Catholic Theological Union until his retirement in 2017, served as co-founder and director of the school’s Catholic-Jewish Studies Program and also served four terms on the board of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

More than 40 years after Leo’s ordination as a priest, Pawlikowski remembers the new pope as a good student with an open mind.

“I do remember him...