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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Brazil Mission Reveals Shared Heart for Christ

by Pete Burak | Apr 25, 2025 | Blog

Isn’t it fun when you meet someone and realize they have a common friend or shared experience? In those moments, we often marvel, “Small world, isn’t it?” Rachel Herbeck and I recently completed a whirlwind mission to Brazil, and this was a common refrain throughout...

Your Present Circumstances

by Rachel Herbeck | Mar 27, 2025 | Blog, Rachel Herbeck

What are your present circumstances? Are you in a season where you are feeling God's love a lot? Are you in a season of suffering? In Philippians, St. Paul tells us his circumstances and how he responds to them in the power of the Holy Spirit: I want you to know,...

A Privilege to Serve, Reasons for Gratitude

by Ralph Martin | Mar 27, 2025 | Blog, Ralph Martin

Dear Friends and Fellow Disciples, As usual, there is a lot going on—thanks be to God! So much great work for the kingdom is being made possible through your support! The class I taught during the fall semester at the seminary was perhaps my best class ever, both...

What Would Monica Do?

by Patti Maguire Armstrong | Mar 27, 2025 | Blog

Discovering the Faith I met my husband, Mark, in the Peace Corps in the Marshall Islands. Mark died on May 11, 2024. We had been married almost forty-three years, and it was a day and fifteen minutes before his sixty-eighth birthday. When we met, we were we were both...

Spreading the Gospel in St. Vincent and the Grenadines

by Bishop Scott McCaig | Mar 27, 2025 | Blog

The Catholic population in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) has decreased from seven to three percent in the last decade due to aggressive proselytization efforts of various Protestant communities, two serious public scandals—one involving a prominent layman and...

The School of Healing

by Kevin Philip | Mar 21, 2025 | Blog

I was born with an extra bone in my foot that causes severe pain. Once I stopped growing, I underwent invasive surgery. It was just a week after my conversion, and I spent a week in the hospital. During that time, I constantly recited the Hail Mary, one of the only...

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