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.