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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Hope for the Future: Holding Clerics to a Higher Standard

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Aug 31, 2018 | Uncategorized

We want to share with you the following reflections from a recent bulletin article by Fr. Steve Mattson, from Church of the Resurrection in Lansing, Michigan. Reflections on the Ordination of a Bishop Later today (Wednesday), a good priest friend of mine, Monsignor...

A Time of Judgment and Purification

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Aug 24, 2018 | Featured Authors

The following prophecy, given by Fr. Michael Scanlan, was shared in a New Covenant magazine article by Kevin and Dorothy Ranaghan in May of 1980. Its words continue to ring true today. One member of our staff responded to the prophecy with these words: “This is very...

An Open Letter from Young Catholics

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Aug 17, 2018 | Featured Authors

The following article originally appeared on First Things. . . . Archbishop McCarrick’s predatory career would not have been possible without the culpable silence or active complicity of men at the highest levels of the Church. Revelations of his abuse have therefore...

A Severe Mercy: Our Time of Visitation

by Peter Herbeck | Aug 9, 2018 | Featured Authors, Peter Herbeck

Dear Brothers and Sisters, I’m writing to share with you a few thoughts as a follow up to Ralph Martin’s excellent and courageous letter Dear Troubled Catholics, regarding the current crisis in the Church. Ralph wrote that this current crisis, precipitated by the...

Dear Troubled Catholics – A Letter From Ralph Martin About the Current Crisis

by Ralph Martin | Jul 31, 2018 | Ralph Martin

Dear Troubled Catholics, I have never seen so many “ordinary Catholics”—who usually never follow or hear about Church news—as deeply troubled as I have seen them in response to the recent revelations about the retired archbishop of Washington, DC. Cardinal...

Sanctification in the Golden Years

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Jul 27, 2018 | Uncategorized

The following is an abridged version of an article written by Anne Valentyne that originally appeared in Renewal Ministries' March and April 2006 newsletter. Its message is of such great value, we believe it is important to share it again now. It can also be found in...

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