{"id":260833,"date":"2025-09-28T08:27:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T08:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/260833\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T08:27:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T08:27:18","slug":"lgbtq-catholic-resource-outreach-to-co-host-lgbtq-prayer-service-in-chicago-on-oct-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/260833\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQ+ Catholic resource Outreach to co-host\u00a0LGBTQ+ prayer service\u00a0in Chicago on Oct. 24\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LGBTQ+ Catholic resource Outreach will partner with Saint Mary of the Lake and Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Chicago to host a regional gathering of queer Catholics, their families and those who minister to them on the evening of Friday, Oct. 24.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The event will include a prayer service inside the church and a social gathering to promote networking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"869\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MichaelOloughlin-1280x1426-1.jpg\" alt=\"Outreach Executive Director Michael O\u2019Loughlin. Photo courtesy of the organization&#10;\" class=\"wp-image-451019\" style=\"width:303px;height:auto\"  \/>Outreach Executive Director Michael O\u2019Loughlin. Photo courtesy of the organization<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted to partner with St. Mary\u2019s as we continue our mission of celebrating, elevating and building up the LGBTQ Catholic community,\u201d said Outreach Executive Director Michael O\u2019Loughlin in a statement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The event is part of Outreach\u2019s goal of hosting events online and in various cities throughout the country. The Chicago event will kick off several gatherings and consultations ahead of Outreach 2026, which will take place at Georgetown University next June (Pride Month).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To register for the Oct. 24 event, complete the form\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/outreach.faith\/2025\/08\/outreach-to-host-prayer-service-community-building-event-in-chicago-on-oct-25\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LGBTQ+ Catholic resource Outreach will partner with Saint Mary of the Lake and Our Lady of Lourdes Parish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":260834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,30573,5386,1818,136598],"class_list":{"0":"post-260833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-church","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-lgbtq-catholic-outreach"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115280981205059248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}