John Thaddeus Pawlikowski, O.S.M. was an American Servite priest, Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics, and Director of the Catholic-Jewish Studies Program, part of The Bernardin Center for Theology and Ministry, at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He was a resident at Assumption Church in the River North section of Chicago.
As a member of Catholic Theological Union from 1968, 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. Pawlikowski also served as president of the International Council of Christians and Jews from 2002 to 2008.