 In that same year, he was admitted as a member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).After completing his period of novitiate in 1974, he went on to obtain a Master of Divinity degree from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley and a Masters and Doctorate in American Cultural History from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. On June 9, 1979, Mury was ordained to the Catholic priesthood in the Jesuit province of Maryland.Murry became an assistant professor of American studies at Georgetown University in 1986, and taught at that institution for four years.