ONE: In Conversation

ONE: In Conversation With Lewis Ayres

ONE: In Conversation With Father Hyacinthe Destivelle, O.P.

In this episode of ONE: In Conversation, released to mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (18-25 January), Father Elias D. Mallon, S.A., speaks with Father Hyacinthe Destivelle, O.P., who heads the Catholic Church’s relations with the Oriental Orthodox churches at the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity. Father Destivelle also serves as the director of the Institute for Ecumenical Studies at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum). Father Mallon is CNEWA’s U.N. representative and special assistant to the president. He previously served as director for the Graymoor Ecumenical and Interreligious Institute and was a faculty member at the Ecumenical Institute of the World Council of Churches in Château de Bossey in Switzerland.

Their conversation provides an update on Catholic-Orthodox relations in the past 20 years, after ONE magazine republished a landmark article by the late Jesuit priest Father John Long on the advances in Catholic-Orthodox dialogue in the 20^th century. Father Long’s article was first published in 2005 and was republished in the September 2024 edition as the magazine commemorated its 50^th anniversary.

Listen to their discussion in this episode of ONE: In Conversation.

ONE: In Conversation With Sister Magdalena Smet, P.S.N.

Sister Magdalena Smet, P.S.N., is among three Little Sisters of Nazareth who have dedicated the past 37 years to living alongside the people in the Palestinian refugee camp at Dbayeh, about 8 miles north of Beirut. Their work, supported by Pontifical Mission, is featured in the December edition of ONE magazine.

The article, “At an Impasse,” is the last in a special series underlining the work of Pontifical Mission in the Middle East in this its 75th anniversary year.

To conclude the anniversary year, Laura Ieraci of ONE magazine invited Sister Magda for an in-depth conversation about how their mission at the refugee camp began and how life at the camp in all its aspects — material and spiritual — is supported by Pontifical Mission.

Listen to Sister Magda in this episode of ONE: In Conversation.

ONE: In Conversation with John L. Esposito

This past summer, Michael J. La Civita, director of communications and marketing for CNEWA, interviewed John L. Esposito, the author of “Is Islam Compatible With Democracy?” more than 10 years after its original publication for ONE: In Conversation. They discuss how this question applies in our modern world and the challenges that arise with any democracy based around ideologies or theologies.

Mr. Esposito is a professor of religion, international affairs and Islamic studies, and founding director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Learn more in this episode of ONE: In Conversation.

ONE: In Conversation With Konstantin Chernichkin

Laura Ieraci, editor of ONE, speaks with Konstantin Chernichkin, a photojournalist based in Kyiv, who has documented and reported on the war in Ukraine for ONE since Russia’s full invasion in 2022.

Their conversation elaborates on the themes Konstantin explores in an article he wrote recently for ONE entitled, “A Letter From a War Photographer.”

Listen to their full conversation here.

ONE: In Conversation With Joseph Hazboun

Joseph Hazboun, regional director of the Jerusalem office of CNEWA-Pontifical Mission, spoke with Michael J.L. La Civita, CNEWA's director of communications and executive editor of ONE, in the fourth episode of ONE: In Conversation. Joseph wrote about the work of his team and their commitment to witnessing to the Christian faith in the land where Jesus lived in “A Letter From the Holy Land” in the December edition of ONE magazine.

In this podcast, Joseph speaks about the current conflict and challenges in the region and the role the church can play in being an agent of healing and reconciliation.

Read "A Letter From the Holy Land."

ONE: In Conversation With Sister Winifred Doherty, R.G.S.

Sister Winifred Doherty, a member of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, is an advocate at the United Nations for an end to human trafficking and the exploitation of women and girls. She wrote about her work in “A Letter From the United Nations” in the September edition of ONE magazine.

Laura Ieraci of ONE magazine invited Sister Winifred for an in-depth conversation in mid-October about what motivates her mission and the challenges and opportunities in advancing the anti-trafficking movement.

Listen to Sister Winifred in this episode of ONE: In Conversation.

Read Sister Winifred's "A Letter From the United Nations."

ONE: In Conversation With Columba Stewart, OSB

Olivia Poust of ONE magazine wrote a feature article about the destruction of cultural heritage during conflict, titled “Erasing Identity,” in the June 2023 issue of ONE magazine.

In her research for this article, she spoke with Benedictine Father Columba Stewart, executive director and CEO of the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML). HMML digitizes and catalogs manuscripts from at-risk collections around the world, working with more than 800 libraries across five continents.

Listen to the interview in this episode of “ONE: In Conversation."

For more on this topic, read "Erasing Identity."