Ralph Martin

President of Renewal Ministries

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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Joyous Meetings in Rome

by Ralph Martin | Jun 30, 2025 | Blog, Ralph Martin

Dear Friends, In the days leading up to the conclave, I published a YouTube video that offered some thoughts on it. You can view the video here. Now that Pope Leo XIV has been elected, let’s pray that God will use him to help the Church gather around the person of...

Weekly Inspiration: Encountering Jesus’ Burning Love

by Elizabeth Rzepka | Jun 27, 2025 | Blog

The Catholic Church is blessed by an abundance of devotions that enrich the lives of believers, but my personal favorite is the feast we celebrate today: the Sacred Heart of Jesus. When we look upon the image of the Sacred Heart, we see a heart split open by Longinus’...

Weekly Inspiration: ‘Consider the Lilies’

by Jessica Jenkins | Jun 20, 2025 | Blog

There’s nothing quite like the loveliness of spring. I enjoy experiencing all the seasons, but spring most of all reminds me of Eden and intimate walks in the garden with the Lord. Last night, I was out for a stroll in my neighborhood. It had rained earlier in the...

Weekly Inspiration: The Charity of St. Martin de Porres

by Katey Norman | Jun 14, 2025 | Blog

I recently made a new friend in St. Martin de Porres. His supernatural faith and many charismatic gifts and abilities have led me to enjoy learning more about his life; however, it is his insurmountable charity that has brought me to a place of great repentance before...

Bishop-Elect’s ‘Strong Foundation’ Has Roots in Renewal Ministries

by Heather Schultz | Jun 13, 2025 | Blog

Pope Leo XIV recently named Fr. Simon Peter Engurait bishop-elect of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana—an appointment that may never have taken place without a Renewal Ministries’ mission trip to Uganda. In 2003, a team composed of Ralph Martin; Peter Herbeck;...

Weekly Inspiration: Hearing the Father’s Voice

by Chris Baker | Jun 13, 2025 | Blog

Jesus said, “The truth will set you free” (Jn 8:32), but that’s not just an abstract or theological truth—it’s the truth about you: your worth, your wounds, and your need for healing. The problem is, we’re often formed more by the world’s wounds than by God’s Word....

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