Dr. Ralph Martin

Catholic author, speaker, theologian

Ralph Martin is the president of Renewal Ministries (www.renewalministries.net), an
organization devoted to Catholic renewal and evangelization. Renewal Ministries is the sponsor
of The Choices We Face, a widely viewed weekly Catholic television and radio program
distributed throughout the world, and engages in a wide variety of mission work in more than
thirty countries.

Ralph also is the director of Graduate Theology Programs in Evangelization and a professor of
theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in the Archdiocese of Detroit (www.shms.edu). He
holds a doctorate in theology from the Angelicum University in Rome.

Pope Benedict XVI appointed Ralph as a consultor to the Pontifical Council for the New
Evangelization, and he continues to serve in this capacity. Ralph also was appointed as a
theological expert for the Synod on the New Evangelization.

He 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, such
as Will Many Be Saved? What Vatican II Actually Teaches and Its Implications for the New
Evangelization, and The Urgency of the New Evangelization, as well as many articles in
scholarly and popular publications.

Ralph and his wife, Anne, reside in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and have six children and seventeen
grandchildren.