Academic and Religious Education
With his father's death in 1905 (when Hurtado was only four), the family found itself to have significant financial difficulties, forcing his mother to start selling off the land owned by the family. Thanks to a scholarship, he managed to study at the prestigious all-boys Jesuit school of St. Ignacio, Santiago (1909–17). During this time, he volunteered at the Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de Andacollo, a Catholic parish and school in a needy neighborhood of Santiago. At the parish and school, he assisted in the office and was librarian. From 1918 to 1923, he attended the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, studying in its law school and writing his thesis on labour law.
Rather than starting a career in law, Hurtado entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1923, was trained in philosophy and theology in Barcelona, Spain, (from where, in 1932, he was expelled with his Spanish colleagues) and completed his theology in Louvain, Belgium, (1932–34) where he was ordained priest on August 24, 1933. While pursuing his theological studies, he worked on a doctorate in psychology and pedagogy at the Catholic University of Louvain.
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