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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Cameroonian Priest Finds Healing After Kidnapping

by Heather Schultz | Nov 12, 2019 | Uncategorized

This article originally appeared in Renewal Ministries' November 2019 newsletter. By Heather Schultz When Fr. Jude Thaddeus Langeh, CMF, invited Renewal Ministries’ Country Coordinator Peter Newburn and Board Member Miriam Wright to do Unbound ministry and training in...

Pastoral Letter to Parents Regarding Gender Theory

by Fr. Dan Kogut | Nov 2, 2019 | Featured Authors, Uncategorized

This letter was recently distributed to members of St. Mary Catholic Church in Pinckney, Michigan. In light of recent concerns that have come to me regarding the issue of modern gender theory, I write this letter as a means of helping you form and guide your children...

Tanzania Outreach Bears Much Fruit

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Oct 23, 2019 | Featured Authors

By Tom Edwards, Renewal Ministries' Country Coordinator Renewal Ministries has made twenty mission forays in seventeen dioceses into the vast country of Tanzania. We have introduced renewal events with several days of outdoor Catholic rallies every time. We also have...

Staying Catholic Made it Possible

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Oct 17, 2019 | Featured Authors

The following interview took place between Renewal Ministries’ Administrative Assistant Therese Jones and supporter Ann Cassano. We share it here as an encouragement and reminder of the difference made by persevering in faith. This interview originally appeared in the...

‘Carry Out the Work of Evangelization’

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Oct 11, 2019 | Featured Authors

Ralph Martin was recently interviewed by Edward Pentin from the National Catholic Register about Vatican II's teachings on salvation that are often misunderstood.We want to help our readers access this from our blog to make sure they don't miss it! You can read the...

The Spirit Comes

by Jack Flanagan | Oct 8, 2019 | Featured Authors, Uncategorized

By Jack Flanagan Cyril of Jerusalem had many wonderful things to tell the early Church about the Holy Spirit. Here is a sampling: The Spirit comes gently and makes himself known by his fragrance. He is not felt as a burden for he is light, very light. The Spirit...

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