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 Day of the Lord’ Asks Faithful to Reclaim Sundays for God

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Jul 7, 2019 | Featured Authors

This letter originally appeared on a website for the Archdiocese of Detroit. By Archbishop Allen Vineron Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, The Archdiocese of Detroit is in the midst of a “missionary conversion, a change in our culture, such that every person at...

The Stages of Sin

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Jul 3, 2019 | Featured Authors

This article originally appeared on Community in Mission, the blog for the Archdiocese of Washington. By Msgr. Charles Pope We are living in times when many are doubling down on their sin. As the darkness grows, many fiercely defend their sinful practices. This is...

Embrace ‘St. Paul’s Spirit’ on Renewal Ministries’ Pilgrimage

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Jul 1, 2019 | Featured Authors

Dr. Peter Williamson is joining Renewal Ministries on its Footsteps of St. Paul pilgrimage in May 2020. He teaches the "Letters of St. Paul" at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in the Archdiocese of Detroit, and he will share expert insight into the places we visit and...

Remain Faithful in Small Things

by Ralph Martin | Jul 1, 2019 | Featured Authors

This article originally appeared in the July 2019 Renewal Ministries' newsletter, which you can access here. Dear Fellow Sons and Daughter of GOD! Isn't it amazing? We are truly sons and daughters of God! With all the “big stuff” going on in the world and in the...

Run the Race: Grow and Go

by Pete Burak | Jun 27, 2019 | Featured Authors

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2019 issue of Faith Magazine. Anyone who’s played sports, pursued music or developed a new personal skill or trait has probably heard it said, “If you’re not getting better, you’re getting worse!” While overly...

‘Saudades’: Brazilians Embrace Renewal

by Renewal Ministries Staff | May 24, 2019 | Featured Authors

This article originally appeared in Renewal Ministries' May 2019 newsletter. By Patti Mansfield “Patti, I have a great feeling that you will be in my country one day.” These words were scrawled on a postcard from Rio sent to me by a Brazilian Jesuit in 1971. They...

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