Against the New Antisemitism, by Peter Wolfgang

By Peter Wolfgang, Catholic Culture, March 22, 2025

Peter Wolfgang is president of Family Institute of Connecticut Action, a Hartford-based advocacy organization whose mission is to encourage and strengthen the family as the foundation of society. His work has appeared in The Hartford Courant, the Waterbury Republican-American, Crisis Magazine, Columbia Magazine, the National Catholic Register, CatholicVote, Catholic World Report, the Stream and Ethika Politika. He lives in Waterbury, Conn., with his wife and their seven children. The views expressed on Catholic Culture are solely his own.

What is the relationship between Judaism and Christianity? Specifically, what is that relationship as understood by the Catholic Church? That question was recently covered here at Catholic Culture, in a piece by Thomas Mirus titled “When attacking antisemitism, don’t fudge Church teaching.” Mirus took issue with Cardinal Dolan’s phrasing of the relationship as two covenants—the new and the old—existing “side-by-side.”

Both columns—Cardinal Dolan’s attacking antisemitism and Mirus’ clarifying the language with which we do so—are needed right now. There is an upsurge in antisemitism on both the left and the right. On the left it often takes more virulent forms and is frequently disguised as anti-colonialism or mere opposition to Israeli policies. But U.S. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer—a politician you will not often see me quote favorably—had some important things to say to his own side of the fence in that regard. Here he is in a recent interview with the New York Times about on Antisemitism in America: ….

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