Background
Murray was born at Newcastle, County Down, in the North of Ireland.
Murray was born at Newcastle, County Down, in the North of Ireland.
In 1966 he joined the Irish Dominican Province, and was ordained a priest in 1973. Since 1994 he has lived in Rome, Italy, where he teaches the literature of the mystical tradition at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, also known as the Angelicum.