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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