Ralph Martin

President of Renewal Ministries

Ralph Martin is the president of Renewal Ministries (www.renewalministries.net), an organization devoted to Catholic renewal and evangelization which also engages in a wide variety of mission work in more than thirty countries. Renewal Ministries is the sponsor of The Choices We Face, a widely viewed weekly Catholic television and radio program distributed throughout the world.

Ralph holds a doctorate in theology from the Angelicum University in Rome. Pope Benedict XVI appointed him as a Consultor to the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization where he served a 12-year term. He was also appointed as a theological expert for the Synod on the New Evangelization. Ralph served for 23 years as Director of Graduate Theology Programs in the New Evangelization at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in the Archdiocese of Detroit.

Ralph is the author of the widely read The Fulfillment of All Desire: A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the Saints, and many books on spirituality and evangelization, as well as many articles in scholarly and popular publications. His latest books are A Life in the Spirit: A Memoir and The Coming Judgement: Are We Ready?

Ralph and his wife, Anne, reside in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and have six children and nineteen grandchildren.

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Are These Prophetic ‘End Times’?

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Oct 4, 2018 | Featured Authors

This article originally appeared in the National Catholic Register. You can view it here. By Judy Roberts Under the sobering headline, “A Time of Judgment and Purification,” Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Renewal Ministries published a decades-old message in its July...

What is God Speaking to Your Heart?

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Oct 3, 2018 | Featured Authors

We shared the following reflections on Facebook, and even though it is not a typical blog post, we want to share them here as well. It is so beautiful to see the myriad ways in which God speaks to and leads each one of us, all with the same goal of drawing us closer...

Spreading the Gospel in Rwanda

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Sep 28, 2018 | Featured Authors

By Nancy Greenhaw Leadership Training Our mission in Rwanda began with a week of teaching Charismatic leaders, including three priests, from all of Rwanda’s nine dioceses. The participants were very involved and asked many questions that revealed their understanding...

A Prayer for Troubled Catholics

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Sep 21, 2018 | Featured Authors

The following prayer was shared with us after the release of Ralph Martin’s letter Dear Troubled Catholics. By Susan Domen Heavenly Father, we praise you! You are goodness and love, you are holy and perfect! We come to you, Father, with heavy hearts, looking to You...

Remembering Fr. Tom Forrest

by Gary Seromik | Sep 17, 2018 | Featured Authors

Fr. Tom Forrest, a Redemptorist priest, a worldwide leader of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, a passionate proponent of the New Evangelization, and a beloved friend and brother of several of us here at Renewal Ministries, passed away on July 16, 2018, just two days...

A Time of Decision: Ireland’s Vote and the Prophecies of Pope John Paul II

by Peter Herbeck | Sep 7, 2018 | Peter Herbeck, Prophecy

The Following article originally appeared in the Renewal Ministries' August 2018 newsletter. “If you would like to visit a place where the symptoms of the sickness of our time are found near their furthest limits, come to Ireland. Here you will see a civilization in...

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