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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The Hope of the Narrow Way

by Renewal Ministries Staff | May 21, 2020 | Blog, Featured Authors

Fr. Richard Vigoa, the pastor of St. Augustine Church in Coral Gables, Florida, shared the following homily with his parish in 2019 on the second Sunday of Lent. Fr. Vigoa is enrolled in the Licentiate of Sacred Theology (STL) Program at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in...

Embracing the Three Disciplines of Lent

by Renewal Ministries | May 20, 2020 | Ralph Martin

Dear Faithful Friends, Can you believe it? Lent is here! I must admit, for most of my life I’ve had mixed feelings about Lent—understanding it was “good for me,” but not really looking forward to the self-denial. This Lent is a little different, because the Lord has...

Surrendering to the Spirit

by Fr. Paul Sciberras | Feb 6, 2020 | Blog, Featured Authors

This article originally appeared in Renewal Ministries' February 2020 newsletter. Ralph Martin was introduced to Fr. Paul Sciberras while speaking at a priests’ retreat in Malta. In this testimony, Fr. Paul, head of the Department of Sacred Scripture, Hebrew and...

Hungarian Conference: ‘Jesus is Life!’

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Jan 16, 2020 | Featured Authors

By Deacon Zoli Kunszabo Arrival We were looking forward to this weekend with Jim Murphy, then-president of International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services, my fellow country coordinator from Renewal Ministries, and a dear friend, one of the most authentic...

A Biblical Perspective on Marriage

by Dr. Mary Healy | Jan 7, 2020 | Featured Authors

This article originally appeared on the Archdiocese of Detroit's website Unleash the Gospel. From beginning to end, the Bible is one great love story. The very first human words in Scripture are Adam’s outburst of joy at seeing Eve, his bride, for the first time:...

Family Life in the Domestic Church

by Debbie Herbeck | Jan 3, 2020 | Featured Authors

This article originally appeared on the Archdiocese of Detroit's website Unleash the Gospel. Thirty-three years ago, united in the sacrament of marriage, Peter and I began an exciting and mysterious adventure. We charted a course for our life that wasn’t based on...

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