He was born in St. Paul Minnesota, on November 13, 1909, and received his early education in Holy Rosary parochial school Minneapolis. Having completed his preparatory studies at La Salle High School Minneapolis, Aquinas College, Columbus, Ohio, and Providence College, he entered the Order at St. Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky and there made profession on August 16, 1931. He made his philosophical and theological studies at the Dominican House of Studies River Forest, Illinois St. Joseph's Priory Somerset Ohio and the Dominican House of Studies Washington. There in the Capital City be was ordained in St. Dominic's Church on June 11, 1937.

In a few months he was sent to the Angelicum in Rome for the lectorate and graduate studies. On his return with the doctorate in theology be taught for one year in the Studium at Washington. Having become affiliated to the Province of St. Albert the Great, he joined the faculty at the Dominican House of Studies, River Forest, which was soon to be elevated to a Pontifical Faculty of Philosophy (1943). At the same time be served the community as Subprior assistant to the Master of Students and a Moderator of the Studium Generale. In 1948 be received the degree of Praesentatus in Theology.

But Father Currans zeal was not restricted to the studia of the Order. For two yea.rs he was also Chaplain and professor of religion at Trinity High School River Forest, for three years professor at Mundelein College and for fourteen years professor also at St. Xavier College. He founded and edited the Supplement to the Dominican Bulletin on the spiritual life for Sisters and when the quarterly review Cross and Crown was established be was for it an editor and contributor. All the while his work as retreat master and director of souls flourished. In the summer of 1952, he became the victim of a mysterious illness that threatened his life. Surgery relieved his condition but be was afflicted with partial paralysis. Nothing daunted, he patiently and with determination submitted to physical therapy in the expectation of recovering mobility. His hopes were realized to the extent that he could resume his teaching at St. Xavier's and lecture also to the student nurses at Mercy St. Anne's and St. Anthony s hospitals. He was professor also at Loyola University. Death came to him unexpectedly and suddenly on February 25, 1965, in St. Pius Priory, Chicago, and his body was interred in the community cemetery at the Novitiate, St. Peter Martyr Priory, Winona Minnesota.