Fr. Hurley is a native of Sykesville, Maryland. He graduated from Loyola University Maryland in 1996 where he studied theology, biology, and Spanish. He entered the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus in 1997. After philosophy studies at St. Louis University, he joined the faculty at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C. where he taught ethics and philosophy and helped in coaching and campus ministry. Fr. Hurley completed theology studies at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California and was ordained a priest in 2008.

After serving for a year as a parochial vicar at Old St. Joseph’s Church in Philadelphia, he became the youth and young adult director of the national office of the Apostleship of Prayer based in Milwaukee. While at the AoP he helped to form the Hearts on Fire young adult retreat program, which is based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius and is now active throughout the US and Canada. Fr. Hurley speaks Spanish and from the fall of 2013 through 2014 was in Chile for tertianship, the last stage of Jesuit formation before taking final vows in the order. He professed his final vows at the 5:30 pm Mass at Saint Raphael Catholic Church on April 26, 2015.