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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Prayer: Why & How

by Sister Ann Shields | Feb 16, 2018 | Sister Ann Shields, Uncategorized

The following is a letter from Sr. Ann Shields to members of Friends of Food for the Journey that we felt was important to share more broadly. If you would like to learn more about Friends of Food for the Journey, click here. Have you been giving God some substantial...

The Fruit of Fasting

by Ralph Martin | Feb 9, 2018 | Featured Authors, Ralph Martin

All of us are praying for people—for healing, for conversion, for a good job, for a good marriage, for financial provision, and many other intentions as well! In my own life, I’ve often noticed an acceleration in answered prayer for specific intentions when I’ve added...

Live Lent Differently

by Sister Ann Shields | Feb 2, 2018 | Sister Ann Shields

Too often, we associate Lent with negative images that involve, in different ways, giving up something. Meanwhile, most of us have a hard time wanting to give up anything. I encourage you to live this Lent in a manner that may be different than what you have done...

Guide to Personal Prayer

by Ralph Martin | Jan 26, 2018 | Ralph Martin

Many spiritual writers, including the saints, offer suggestions concerning methods on prayer. Francis de Sales, very much influenced by his own experience of St. Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises, offers some suggested structures and formats for the practice of...

Combating the Pro-Abortion Movement in Tanzania

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Jan 19, 2018 | Uncategorized

» Bishop Liberatus Sangu holds a fetal model used in Pro-Life presentations. This marked Renewal Ministries’ seventeenth consecutive year in Tanzania. Bishop Liberatus Sangu invited us to present the first Renewal events in Shinyanga, which has a population of...

‘Your Sins are Forgiven’

by Dr. Mary Healy | Jan 14, 2018 | Featured Authors

The following post originally appeared as the Friday, January 12, 2018 Magnificat mediatation. You can learn more about the Magnificat here. If you are praying for someone and sense that guilt or sin is an obstacle, a good approach is to ask very discreetly and...

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