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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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...

Road to Liberation: A False Gospel

by Peter Herbeck | Jan 10, 2018 | Featured Authors, Peter Herbeck

The suppression of the truth about God in our day is fueled by a false gospel that goes something like this: Man has come of age. With fantastic advances in science and technology, he now has the power to shape his own existence and overcome all obstacles that stand...

Fr. Francis Martin: Humble Man and Spiritual Giant

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Jan 4, 2018 | Uncategorized

Fr. Francis Martin was a great Scripture scholar, preacher, and long-time friend of Renewal Ministries. He was the priest who supervised Ralph Martin's Licentiate in Sacred Theology thesis at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC. We came across the...

How Does God Reveal Himself through You?

by Sister Ann Shields | Jan 1, 2018 | Featured Authors

The following letter originally was sent last January to members of Friends of Food for the Journey, which you can learn more about here. Dear Brothers and Sisters, It's a new year! When we think of new, we usually apply that word to a new dress, suit, shoes, new car,...

Practical Steps to “Grow & Go”

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Dec 29, 2017 | Uncategorized

As we near the end of this year, it is worth looking at how we have grown in our relationship with Christ and meditate on what we might be able to do in the coming year to not only draw closer to Him, but to draw others to him as well. The Catholic Diocese of Lansing...

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