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 is the director of Graduate Theology Programs in the New Evangelization at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in the Archdiocese of Detroit. Ralph is also the author of 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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The St. Catherine of Siena Society

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One significant way you can help ensure Renewal Ministries’ continued work of Catholic Renewal and Evangelization is to designate us as a beneficiary in your will or trust. Those who let us know they have remembered Renewal Ministries in this way become members of the St. Catherine of Siena Society.

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A form indicating that you have remembered Renewal Ministries in your estate planning so that we can enroll you in the St. Catherine of Siena Society and send you our gifts of appreciation is available here.
Members receive a personalized gift and a complimentary set of Ralph Martin’s CDs on St. Catherine’s life and teachings.

As St. Catherine of Siena said, “Be who you were meant to be, and you will set the world on fire.” A gift to Renewal Ministries through the St. Catherine of Siena Society ensures that fire will continue to blaze for future generations!

For more information or to let us know that you have remembered us in your estate planning and would like to be enrolled in the St. Catherine of Siena Society, please email Heather Schultz at hschultz@renewalministries.net.

Thank you!

Why St. Catherine of Siena?

She embodies Renewal Ministries’ mission in so many ways: She was deeply contemplative and deeply charismatic. She communed continually with God in prayer and received amazing wisdom and insight from Him, and at the same time prophesied to the pope, cast out demons, healed the sick, and called many to repentance and a life of holiness. She lived at a time of great crisis for the Church—with competing claimants to the papacy and the legitimate pope living in fear and subservient to the French political powers in Avignon, France. When she arrived in the papal court, she smelled the “stench of sin.” She even wrote passionately about the horror of homosexuality among the clergy and cowardly bishops who transferred offending clerics to other assignments without appropriate discipline. Her passion for the Lord and the renewal of the Church, combined with her deeply contemplative and charismatic ministry, is inspiring to us. And so the name!

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