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 M.A. in Theology
from Sacred Heart School of Theology in the Archdiocese of
Detroit. 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. More than 60 million Catholics
worldwide have been touched by this movement. 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. During this time he and his family
spent four years living in Belgium, working closely with Cardinal
L.J. Suenens.
Currently Mr. Martin is president of Renewal Ministries, an
organization devoted to Catholic renewal and evangelization.
Renewal Ministries is accountable in its work to a Board of
Directors in the United States, chaired by Bishop Sam Jacobs of
Alexandria, LA, and in Canada to a Board chaired by Bishop Faber
MacDonald of Grand Falls, Newfoundland. Renewal Ministries is the
sponsor of "The Choices We Face," a widely viewed weekly Catholic
television and radio program distributed throughout the world.
Renewal Ministries is also actively involved in assisting the
Church in Eastern Europe, Africa, and various other places through
leadership training, evangelistic conferences and retreats, and
the publication and distribution of literature.
Mr. Martin is also the author of a number of books, his latest
being, The Catholic Church at the End of an Age: What is the
Spirit Saying?, Is Jesus Coming Soon? A Catholic
Perspective on the Second Coming, and Called to
Holiness. He and his wife, Anne, are parents of six children
and reside in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the Diocese of Lansing.
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