Father John J. Keating, CSP, was born on May 10, 1918, in Stratford, Ontario. While a student at Malvern College in Toronto he wrestled with the "God question" and, having decided to believe, was confronted with the vocation question. Feeling that a few months in seminary would settle the matter, he entered the Paulists in 1938. He made his first profession in the community on September 2, 1939, and, after finishing his course of studies, was ordained a Catholic priest in New York by Cardinal James McIntyre on January 25, 1945.
Father Keating's thirty-three years of priesthood included assignments to the Information Centers in New York (where he contracted jaundice and nearly died) and Chicago, campus ministry at Berkeley and Ohio State – where along with Father Richard Walsh, CSP, he founded the Newman Center – and parish work in New York at Saint Paul the Apostle parish, as well as Los Angeles. From 1960-64 he was the Director of the Paulist Institute of Religious Research, which had the task of meeting the challenges presented by the Second Vatican Council. This job involved a great deal of travel – giving workshops and seminars throughout the country to groups of seminarians and priests. The Institute also published a monthly magazine called "Guide."
Father Keating was an advisor to the Canadian hierarchy on the establishment of a commission on ecumenism during Vatican II. From 1965 until 1974 he served as Director of the English section of the Canadian Bishops' Secretariat on Ecumenism, based in Toronto. He was also a member of the Joint Preparatory Commission for Anglican-Catholic dialogue that emerged from the meeting of Pope Paul VI and the Archbishop of Canterbury. He was a Consultor of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, and served as an original member of the first Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC-I).
Father Keating was a frequent speaker on ecumenical topics in the U.S. and Canada. He also appeared regularly on radio and TV, especially during the eight years he worked in New York City. He had a regular program for a year on CBS-TV. He was also the author of one of the best-selling "Outlines of Catholic Teaching" published by Paulist Press in 1958. He was a frequent contributor to Catholic and ecumenical magazines, and also wrote several studies on Father Isaac Hecker who founded the Paulists in New York in 1858.
The Canadian government awarded him the Canada Medal for his work on the Religious Pavilion at Expo '67 World's Fair held in Montréal. In 1974 he was elected Vice-President of the Paulist Community in the second Stransky administration and moved to the Paulist headquarters in Scarsdale, New York. In the spring of 1975 he was diagnosed with cancer and returned to his native Canada. He succumbed to the disease in Toronto on November 20, 1975. At the time of his death he was 57 years old.
Father Keating's thirty-three years of priesthood included assignments to the Information Centers in New York (where he contracted jaundice and nearly died) and Chicago, campus ministry at Berkeley and Ohio State – where along with Father Richard Walsh, CSP, he founded the Newman Center – and parish work in New York at Saint Paul the Apostle parish, as well as Los Angeles. From 1960-64 he was the Director of the Paulist Institute of Religious Research, which had the task of meeting the challenges presented by the Second Vatican Council. This job involved a great deal of travel – giving workshops and seminars throughout the country to groups of seminarians and priests. The Institute also published a monthly magazine called "Guide."
Father Keating was an advisor to the Canadian hierarchy on the establishment of a commission on ecumenism during Vatican II. From 1965 until 1974 he served as Director of the English section of the Canadian Bishops' Secretariat on Ecumenism, based in Toronto. He was also a member of the Joint Preparatory Commission for Anglican-Catholic dialogue that emerged from the meeting of Pope Paul VI and the Archbishop of Canterbury. He was a Consultor of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, and served as an original member of the first Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC-I).
Father Keating was a frequent speaker on ecumenical topics in the U.S. and Canada. He also appeared regularly on radio and TV, especially during the eight years he worked in New York City. He had a regular program for a year on CBS-TV. He was also the author of one of the best-selling "Outlines of Catholic Teaching" published by Paulist Press in 1958. He was a frequent contributor to Catholic and ecumenical magazines, and also wrote several studies on Father Isaac Hecker who founded the Paulists in New York in 1858.
The Canadian government awarded him the Canada Medal for his work on the Religious Pavilion at Expo '67 World's Fair held in Montréal. In 1974 he was elected Vice-President of the Paulist Community in the second Stransky administration and moved to the Paulist headquarters in Scarsdale, New York. In the spring of 1975 he was diagnosed with cancer and returned to his native Canada. He succumbed to the disease in Toronto on November 20, 1975. At the time of his death he was 57 years old.
Father John J. Keating, CSP, was born on May 10, 1918, in Stratford, Ontario. While a student at Malvern College in Toronto he wrestled with the "God question" and, having decided to believe, was confronted with the vocation question. Feeling that a few months in seminary would settle the matter, he entered the Paulists in 1938. He made his first profession in the community on September 2, 1939, and, after finishing his course of studies, was ordained a Catholic priest in New York by Cardinal James McIntyre on January 25, 1945.
Father Keating's thirty-three years of priesthood included assignments to the Information Centers in New York (where he contracted jaundice and nearly died) and Chicago, campus ministry at Berkeley and Ohio State – where along with Father Richard Walsh, CSP, he founded the Newman Center – and parish work in New York at Saint Paul the Apostle parish, as well as Los Angeles. From 1960-64 he was the Director of the Paulist Institute of Religious Research, which had the task of meeting the challenges presented by the Second Vatican Council. This job involved a great deal of travel – giving workshops and seminars throughout the country to groups of seminarians and priests. The Institute also published a monthly magazine called "Guide."
Father Keating was an advisor to the Canadian hierarchy on the establishment of a commission on ecumenism during Vatican II. From 1965 until 1974 he served as Director of the English section of the Canadian Bishops' Secretariat on Ecumenism, based in Toronto. He was also a member of the Joint Preparatory Commission for Anglican-Catholic dialogue that emerged from the meeting of Pope Paul VI and the Archbishop of Canterbury. He was a Consultor of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, and served as an original member of the first Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC-I).
Father Keating was a frequent speaker on ecumenical topics in the U.S. and Canada. He also appeared regularly on radio and TV, especially during the eight years he worked in New York City. He had a regular program for a year on CBS-TV. He was also the author of one of the best-selling "Outlines of Catholic Teaching" published by Paulist Press in 1958. He was a frequent contributor to Catholic and ecumenical magazines, and also wrote several studies on Father Isaac Hecker who founded the Paulists in New York in 1858.
The Canadian government awarded him the Canada Medal for his work on the Religious Pavilion at Expo '67 World's Fair held in Montréal. In 1974 he was elected Vice-President of the Paulist Community in the second Stransky administration and moved to the Paulist headquarters in Scarsdale, New York. In the spring of 1975 he was diagnosed with cancer and returned to his native Canada. He succumbed to the disease in Toronto on November 20, 1975. At the time of his death he was 57 years old.
Father Keating's thirty-three years of priesthood included assignments to the Information Centers in New York (where he contracted jaundice and nearly died) and Chicago, campus ministry at Berkeley and Ohio State – where along with Father Richard Walsh, CSP, he founded the Newman Center – and parish work in New York at Saint Paul the Apostle parish, as well as Los Angeles. From 1960-64 he was the Director of the Paulist Institute of Religious Research, which had the task of meeting the challenges presented by the Second Vatican Council. This job involved a great deal of travel – giving workshops and seminars throughout the country to groups of seminarians and priests. The Institute also published a monthly magazine called "Guide."
Father Keating was an advisor to the Canadian hierarchy on the establishment of a commission on ecumenism during Vatican II. From 1965 until 1974 he served as Director of the English section of the Canadian Bishops' Secretariat on Ecumenism, based in Toronto. He was also a member of the Joint Preparatory Commission for Anglican-Catholic dialogue that emerged from the meeting of Pope Paul VI and the Archbishop of Canterbury. He was a Consultor of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, and served as an original member of the first Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC-I).
Father Keating was a frequent speaker on ecumenical topics in the U.S. and Canada. He also appeared regularly on radio and TV, especially during the eight years he worked in New York City. He had a regular program for a year on CBS-TV. He was also the author of one of the best-selling "Outlines of Catholic Teaching" published by Paulist Press in 1958. He was a frequent contributor to Catholic and ecumenical magazines, and also wrote several studies on Father Isaac Hecker who founded the Paulists in New York in 1858.
The Canadian government awarded him the Canada Medal for his work on the Religious Pavilion at Expo '67 World's Fair held in Montréal. In 1974 he was elected Vice-President of the Paulist Community in the second Stransky administration and moved to the Paulist headquarters in Scarsdale, New York. In the spring of 1975 he was diagnosed with cancer and returned to his native Canada. He succumbed to the disease in Toronto on November 20, 1975. At the time of his death he was 57 years old.
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