About Saint Joseph the Worker · Tribune, Kansas
St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church is a small Roman Catholic parish serving the farming community of Tribune in Greeley County, western Kansas. It is one of three parishes in the 'Tri-Parish' cluster of the Catholic Diocese of Dodge City, joined with St. Mary in Marienthal and St. Anthony of Padua in Leoti, and all three are shepherded by a single pastor, Very Rev. Bernard Felix, VF. With about 60 registered households, it is a tight-knit rural parish where Sunday Mass is the gathering point for Catholics across this sparsely populated stretch of the High Plains.
- Patron
- St. Joseph the Worker
- Rector
- Rev. Bernard Felix, VF
- Diocese
- Catholic Diocese of Dodge City
Why belong here
St. Joseph the Worker is a small but faithful Catholic community at the heart of Greeley County, offering the Eucharist every Sunday morning and on Tuesday, with confessions available before Mass. As one of three parishes in the Tri-Parish cluster, it shares its priest, religious-education director, and secretary with neighboring St. Mary (Marienthal) and St. Anthony of Padua (Leoti), giving families across the western Kansas plains a connected Catholic home and a DRE-run faith formation program for their children. Visitors and travelers passing through Tribune are warmly welcomed at this friendly rural parish of about 60 households.
Mass times at Saint Joseph the Worker
Weekly Mass schedule
Confession times
- 30 minutes before Sunday Mass
Parish Identity and Location
St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic parish at 801 Broadway in Tribune, Greeley County, Kansas (mailing: PO Box 67, Tribune, KS 67879-0067). It belongs to the Catholic Diocese of Dodge City and is dedicated to St. Joseph under the title 'the Worker,' a feast the universal Church celebrates on May 1 in honor of the dignity of labor.
- Address: 801 Broadway, PO Box 67, Tribune, KS 67879-0067
- Diocese: Catholic Diocese of Dodge City
- Patron: St. Joseph the Worker (feast day May 1)
- About 60 registered households
Pastor and Staff
The parish is served by Very Rev. Bernard Felix, VF, who also serves as pastor of St. Mary in Marienthal and St. Anthony of Padua in Leoti. He additionally serves as Director of Christian Initiation for the cluster. Shared staff include parish secretary Gail Hunt (covering Marienthal, Leoti, and Tribune) and Director of Religious Education Trista Shafer, whose mailing address is PO Box 475, Tribune, KS 67879. The pastor's title 'VF' denotes his role as Vicar Forane in the diocese.
- Pastor: Rev. Bernard Felix, VF
- Parish Secretary: Gail Hunt (Tri-Parish, shared)
- Director of Religious Education: Trista Shafer
- Director of Christian Initiation: Rev. Bernard Felix, VF
Tri-Parish Cluster (Marienthal / Leoti / Tribune)
St. Joseph the Worker shares a single priest and office staff with two sister parishes in the same deanery: St. Mary in Marienthal (210 N 2nd, Marienthal, KS 67863) and St. Anthony of Padua in Leoti (600 S. Fourth St, Leoti, KS 67861). Weekend Masses at St. Mary's and St. Anthony's rotate monthly between a Saturday Vigil at 6:30 pm and Sunday at 9:00 am Central time; parishioners are asked to consult the bulletin or Tri-Parish News for each week's location.
- Cluster office phone: 620-379-4427 (Marienthal)
- Cluster fax: 620-379-4428
- St. Mary, Marienthal — Fri 8:00 am
- St. Anthony of Padua, Leoti — Wed & Thu 8:00 am
- St. Joseph the Worker, Tribune — Sun 10:30 am and Tue 8:00 am Mountain time
Faith Formation and Sacraments
Religious education for the parish children is coordinated by DRE Trista Shafer. Christian Initiation (the preparation of adults for the sacraments of initiation, including RCIA) is directed by the pastor himself. Together with the cluster parishes, this gives families across Greeley and Wichita Counties a connected Catholic faith-formation program in a region where parishes are widely separated.
- Director of Religious Education: Trista Shafer
- Director of Christian Initiation: Rev. Bernard Felix, VF
- Christian Initiation (RCIA) available
Contact and Practical Information
Mail for the parish should be addressed to PO Box 67, Tribune, KS 67879-0067; DRE correspondence can be sent to PO Box 475, Tribune, KS 67879. The shared Tri-Parish office in Marienthal is reached at 620-379-4427 (fax 620-379-4428). Because the parish does not currently maintain its own dedicated website or public social-media pages, the official Catholic Diocese of Dodge City directory page and the Western Kansas Catholic cluster site are the best online references.
- Parish mailing: PO Box 67, Tribune, KS 67879-0067
- DRE mailing: PO Box 475, Tribune, KS 67879
- Office: 620-379-4427 / Fax 620-379-4428
- Diocese directory page: dcdiocese.org/directory/parishes/107