Ralph Martin Profile
Ralph Martin has been a leader in renewal
movements in the Catholic Church for many years.
After graduating from the University of Notre Dame,
he did graduate work in philosophy at Princeton
University and holds an MA in Theology from Sacred
Heart School of Theology in the Archdiocese of
Detroit, a Licentiate in Sacred Theology (S.T.L.) from
the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception
at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington,
D.C., and a Doctorate in Sacred Theology (S.T.D.)
from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas (the
“Angelicum”) in Rome. He worked for a number of
years for the National Office of the Cursillo
Movement and subsequently became a leader in the
national and international development of the charismatic renewal movement in the
Catholic Church. He was the founding editor of New Covenant Magazine, as well as the
founding director of the International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Office, currently
located in Rome.
Currently, Ralph is president of Renewal Ministries, an organization devoted to
Catholic renewal and evangelization (www.renewalministries.net). Ralph is also the host
of “The Choices We Face” a widely viewed weekly Catholic television and radio
program distributed throughout the world. Renewal Ministries is accountable in its work
to a Board of Directors in the United States, which Archbishop Robert Carlson of St.
Louis, serves as Episcopal Advisor, and to a Board in Canada that Cardinal Thomas
Collins of Toronto, serves as Episcopal Advisor. Renewal Ministries is also actively
involved in assisting the Church in more than 30 different countries through leadership
training, evangelistic conferences and retreats, and the publication and distribution of
Catholic resources.
Ralph is also an associate professor and Director of Graduate Theology Programs
in the New Evangelization at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in the Archdiocese of Detroit
(www.shms.edu) and a Visiting Professor of Theology at the Franciscan University of
Steubenville. He was named by Pope Benedict XVI as a Consultor to the Pontifical
Council for the New Evangelization and was also appointed as a “peritus” to the Synod
on the New Evangelization in October of 2012.
Ralph is the author of a number of books, the most recent of which areThe
Urgency of the New Evangelization: Answering the Call; The Fulfillment of All Desire:
A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the Saints, and Will Many
Be Saved? What Vatican II Actually Teaches and Its Implications for the New
Evangelization. He and his wife Anne have six children and 14 grandchildren and reside
in Ann Arbor, Michigan.