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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Ralph Martin Recalls Meeting Mother Teresa

by Ralph Martin | Sep 19, 2016 | Featured Authors

One of the real surprises of my life happened one morning in Rome, when I was invited to attend Pope John Paul II’s private Mass along with some of Mother Teresa’s sisters. After Mass, the pope began to greet each one of us. That is when I realized Mother Teresa was...

Scott Hahn, Matthew Leonard extend praise for ‘The Fulfillment of All Desire’

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Sep 15, 2016 | Uncategorized

Fellow Catholics are continuing to extend their appreciation for Ralph Martin's The Fulfilment of All Desire during this year, which is the ten-year anniversary of the book's publication. You can click here to listen to a recent interview Ralph did with Matthew...

Sr. Ann Recalls Day with Mother Teresa

by Sister Ann Shields | Sep 12, 2016 | Featured Authors

In 1976, I had the privilege of being invited by Father Michael Scanlan to come to the now Franciscan University of Steubenville to help build, strengthen, and secure a living faith environment on campus. As part of that process, Father Michael invited Mother Teresa...

The Most Important Job in the World

by Debbie Herbeck | Sep 4, 2016 | Featured Authors

Twenty-seven years ago, I was a young wife and mother, struggling in my vocation. I loved my husband, my two-year-old daughter, and my six-month-old son, but the mundane and repetitive tasks of daily life, and the powerful messages of the women’s movement, made my...

Msgr. Pope Lauds ‘Fulfillment of All Desire’

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Sep 1, 2016 | Featured Authors

This year is the tenth anniversary of the publication of Ralph Martin's book The Fulfillment of All Desire, and the book recently received a great gift—a glowing recommendation from Msgr. Charles Pope. He writes, "Of all the books on prayer I recommend, The...

Sr. Ann Shields, Johnnette Benkovic Discuss Intercessory Prayer on ‘Women of Grace’

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Aug 29, 2016 | Uncategorized

Sr. Ann Shields, SGL, will appear on Johnnette Benkovic's EWTN program, Women of Grace, throughout this week--Monday, Aug. 29 through Friday, Sept. 2. The program will air two times each day, at 11:00 a.m. (ET) and again at 11:30 p.m. (ET). The theme for this series...

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