A priest whose voice was familiar to thousands of radio listeners in Luzerne County and whose newspaper columns resonated with readers there for decades died on Christmas Eve.
The Rev. Thomas Carten, CSC, died on Dec. 24 at Holy Cross House, an infirmary at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, according to the Rev. Thomas Looney, director of Campus Ministry at Kingâs College in Wilkes-Barre.
Carten was a member of the Congregation of Holy Cross, or Congregatio a Sancta Cruce, a Catholic congregation of missionary priests and brothers founded in 1837 in Le Mans, France. Kingâs College was founded in 1946 by Congregation of Holy Cross priests and brothers from the University of Notre Dame.