A Memorial Mass for the Rev. Thomas Carten, CSC, will be celebrated at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Chapel of Christ the King, located on North Street in Wilkes-Barre.
Because of COVID-19 restrictions, anyone who wishes to attend should call the Office of Campus Ministry at 570-208-5890 to reserve a seat.
The Mass will be live-streamed at www.kings.edu/chapel-stream.
Father Carten died Dec. 24 at Holy Cross House, an infirmary at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. He was 78.
A member of the Congregation of Holy Cross, or Congregatio a Sancta Cruce, Carten founded the hour-long Radio Home Visitor show at WRKC, Kingâs Collegeâs radio station, to serve the blind, visually impaired and homebound as a student at Kingâs. The program has remained on the air since 1974. He later served in Campus Ministry and the Alumni Office at the college.
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.