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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A New Pentecost: Why Now?

by Ralph Martin | May 18, 2018 | Ralph Martin

Pope John XXIII implored the whole Church to pray in preparation for the Council, asking God to send us a “new Pentecost,” and Benedict XVI called for the whole Church to pray for a renewal of Baptism and confirmation and be “baptized in the Spirit.” For more than 40...

A Conspiracy of Silence on Heaven

by Sister Ann Shields | May 11, 2018 | Sister Ann Shields

...my father complained to me some years ago that no one talked about heaven. I see a couple of reasons for that phenomenon. First, no one wants to be definitive about anything these days. No one wants to take a stand, even though Scripture and the long tradition of...

Personal Prayer—Being Present Is Essential

by Ralph Martin | May 4, 2018 | Ralph Martin

Prayer is simply the name that has traditionally been given to communication, or conversation, with God—it is awareness of Him, consciously being present to Him, and Him being present to us. Most of the laws we discover in the development of our human...

Non-Negotiable Silence

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Apr 26, 2018 | Uncategorized

The following article originally appeared in Sr. Emmanuel Maillard’s November 2017 monthly report from Medjugorje and was re-printed in Renewal Ministries' May 2018 newsletter. Thieves in our midst! Every day, new means of communication are made available and...

Proclaiming the New Evangelization in Amsterdam

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Apr 20, 2018 | Uncategorized

Dr. Ralph Martin with a group of Dominican seminarians in Ireland. The following post, "Proclaiming the New Evangelization in Amsterdam", was originally written by Lisa Martinez for the Mosaic Blog April 1st, 2018. Traveling to Ireland to speak at a large Divine Mercy...

Reflections on Baptism in the Holy Spirit

by Jack Lynch | Apr 13, 2018 | Uncategorized

The following article originally appeared in Renewal Ministries' April 2018 newsletter. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the grace of baptism in the Holy Spirit has been a significant, life-changing experience for millions of Christians around the world....

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