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Ralph Martin

President of Renewal Ministries

Email rmartin@renewalministries.net

Ralph Martin is the president of Renewal Ministries and the host of the weekly Catholic television program The Choices We Face. He holds a doctorate in theology and has just completed twenty-three years as the director of Graduate Theology Programs in the New Evangelization at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in the Archdiocese of Detroit. Ralph is the author of A Life in the Spirit: A Memoir and the widely read A Church in Crisis: Pathways Forward and The Fulfillment of All Desire: A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the Saints.

Ralph and his wife, Anne, reside in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and have six children and nineteen grandchildren.

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Archbishop Chaput Cautions Faithful Regarding Fr. James Martin’s Claims

by Peter Herbeck | Sep 21, 2019 | Featured Authors

Dear Readers, We want to encourage you to visit CatholicPhilly.com to read a statement issued by Archbishop Charles Chaput, OFM Cap, yesterday regarding some of the claims of Fr. James Martin, SJ. We believe Chaput is the first major archbishop in the US to publicly...

What the Spirit is Saying to the Church Today

by Peter Herbeck | Aug 1, 2019 | Featured Authors

This letter originally appeared in Renewal Ministries’ August 2019 newsletter. Dear Friends, We’re living through challenging times. Even in the midst of this season of “severe mercy” that has come upon the Church, we have much to celebrate. It is the Lord...

‘Keeping Our Heads in All Situations’

by Peter Herbeck | Feb 8, 2019 | Featured Authors, Peter Herbeck

  The following letter from Peter Herbeck originally appeared in Renewal Ministries’ February 2019 newsletter, which you can view here. Dear Friends, I’ve been thinking and praying for all of you—all of us—who are living through these unprecedented times...

A Time of Decision: Ireland’s Vote and the Prophecies of Pope John Paul II

by Peter Herbeck | Sep 7, 2018 | Peter Herbeck, Prophecy

The Following article originally appeared in the Renewal Ministries’ August 2018 newsletter. “If you would like to visit a place where the symptoms of the sickness of our time are found near their furthest limits, come to Ireland. Here you will see a...

A Severe Mercy: Our Time of Visitation

by Peter Herbeck | Aug 9, 2018 | Featured Authors, Peter Herbeck

Dear Brothers and Sisters, I’m writing to share with you a few thoughts as a follow up to Ralph Martin’s excellent and courageous letter Dear Troubled Catholics, regarding the current crisis in the Church. Ralph wrote that this current crisis, precipitated by the...
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