[2] Following his return to Chicago, Keating served as associate pastor at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish until 1960, when Cardinal Albert Meyer sent him back to Rome to study canon law.
[1] Back in Chicago, Keating served as assistant chancellor of the archdiocese and associate pastor at Immaculate Conception Parish.
[1] After the death of Cardinal John Cody in April 1982, Keating served as apostolic administrator of Chicago until the appointment of Archbishop Joseph Bernardin.
[1] In 1994, he and Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz made national headlines when they insisted on maintaining exclusively male altar servers in their dioceses.
[1] In March 1998, Keating made an ad limina visit to Rome to meet with John Paul II and report on his diocese.