Director Ryan White said in an interview with Fox News that he didn't consider The Keepers to be an anti-Catholic movie. Instead he viewed it as a movie against child abuse and cover-ups of child abuse.
Maskell is buried in Holy Family cemetery, a cemetery in Randallstown, Maryland. He is buried with his parents. On the front of the gravestone is the family name Maskell, with his parents' names below. His name is engraved near the bottom of the tombstone on its backside in smaller engraved letters. "Rev. Anthony Joseph Maskell"