Paul Gilsinger 
Kelly Weaver 
Kevin Whiteman

Address:
5898 IN-119
Star City, IN 46985

Phone: 574-946-4906

Weekend Mass Time:
           8:00 AM Sunday

Open Church Hours for Prayer, Meditation, and Reflection
 Monday, Thursday, and Saturday 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Bishop Joseph Rademacher dedicated the brick Gothic St. Joseph Church at Pulaski on May 20, 1900. The church, which seats 300, had a 100-foot steeple. Having 106 households then, the parish has grown to about 140 households. This church was enlarged by a 30x62-foot apse in 1915. Later its stained-glass windows were installed. Precious Blood Missionaries have served the parish since 1873.

From 1852 priests from Logansport and Fort Wayne irregularly visited Pulaski County. From 1858 to 1862, Father Francis Nigh resided with a Pulaski family while caring for missions at Pulaski, Indian Creek, Winamac, Monterey, Turkey Creek, Klaasville, Crown Point, and Kewanna. Father Henry Koenig (1868-1872) from Winamac built a rectory at Indian Creek and arranged for a new church. 

The Indian Creek Township parish had mission churches on either side of the Tippecanoe River before a bridge was built. On the west side, a 16x24-foot St. Ann mission was built in 1852. In 1870 it was added to and used as a sacristy for a larger St. Francis of Assissi mission. On the river's east side, the Indian Creek settlement built a frame church in 1855, enlarged it in 1858, abandoned it in 1866, and after 1868 built Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church a mile and a half south of Pulaski. At an 1894 confirmation visit, Bishop Rademacher asked both churches to merge into St. Joseph Parish. 

Precious Blood Missionary Father Willibald Siemers acquired one and a half acres opposite Pulaski on the river's east side. The rectory was completed in 1899. For the church's centennial on July 15, 2001, Bishop William Higi celebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving, rededicating the redecorated edifice.