LifeShiteNews - Prophecy, "the end is near"

LifeShiteNews has fired its co-founder, John-Henry Westen. Steve Jalsevac engineered the coup d'etat. In a now-deleted post on X, Jalsevac gives some history. 

JH certainly went off the deep end. As a Latin Mass promotor, cantor and choir director and head of an Una Voce chapter in Canada, I was happy to see his promotion of the Mass. What disturbed me about JH over the last couple of years was an almost obsessive dalliance with mystics and alleged prophets. He chased after them continuously, and for me, it was a major reason I stopped reading. That turned people off, Steve, not the Latin Mass.

What you, dear reader, don't know is that this writer was a source for many, many articles on LifeShiteNews. I did them many favours. My reward was when I called out Jalsevac for his grotesque anti-semitism and his ignoring of the events of October 7, 2023, he blocked me on the webpage, and mocked me, attacked me and made up lies, -- outright calumny in emails to a priest friend. When called out on it, he refused multiple times to apologize. He even wrote they they, LifeShitNews, were doing "God's work." Such hubris! Since when did fabrication and calumny become God's work? Blasphemous. 

Jalsevac, like many other Catholics, have given the impression that the only way to be a good Catholic is to hate Jews. It seems deeply embedded in their psyche. It is grotesque.

Unlike Steve's view, I do see this as the end of LifeShiteNews. JH had a cult-following that will now close its wallets. In this day of splintered social media and Substack articles and as a blogger, I see the change in views and comments; there is too much information and not enough people prepared to fork over funds in a tough economy. 

LifeShiteNews did good work for some time. Lately, it has reaped what it has sown, and the sacking of JH will only hasten its demise.

Steve Jalsevac
@jalsevacs

That is just what John-Henry may have wanted many to believe. It is completely false.

LifeSiteNews has been a close team of many talented persons who created what was an incredibly successful, international pro-life, pro-family news service. None of that could have happened without all those people and their valuable contributions to what, for the first 12 years, was a project of and within Canada’s national pro-life organization that dealt with many international developments related to the culture of death vs. the culture of life.

It was founded, funded, encouraged and guided by CLC and especially by its leader Jim Hughes who was the visionary who saw the great need for the pro-life movement to have its own international news service to counter the lies, manipulations and ignoring of many important developments within the international pro-life movement.

CLC gave us its large email list to begin the incredible growth of LifeSite. LifeSite would never have existed without CLC.

Jim Hughes assumed we would continue to grow and continue as the pro-life, pro-family news agency that it was founded to be and which CLC gave so much to from its own resources.

In recent years, John-Henry worked and insisted that we change the highly successful LifeSiteNews mission to become a dramatically different one of a traditional, Latin Mass Catholic evangelizing, religious organization to draw readers into the Catholic Church according to the teachings of the Council of Trent.

Founding board members Jim Hughes, myself and others strongly opposed this change which we believed would tremendously confuse our loyal readers and subscribers and most new people as to what LifeSiteNews really was because of the schizophrenic messaging that the new mission statement presented.

A large majority of subscribers and readers were not traditional Latin Mass Catholics or not Catholic at all, and the changed LifeSiteNews would appeal to a far narrower audience since the target audience that John-Henry insisted on preaching to were only a tiny fraction of Catholics and violated our founding purpose.

Sadly, John-Henry was able to arrange a board vote that outnumbered those who never thought they would have to vote on such a dramatic change, including other board memberss who were removed prior to the vote for poor behaviours because they were so intensely opposed to the change in what they had given so much of themselves to for a number of years.

One of those board members was wholly responsible for encouraging and paying for LifeSiteNews to incorporate in the United States and was a very generous donor and constantly active supporter in many other ways. The other removed board member was also a major donor and played a large role in our highly successful sustainers program

LifeSite will not die because it has always had a strong appeal to international pro-life Catholics/Christians amd others of goodwill and has never been dependent on any one person.

Our fears about the dangers of the dramatic mission change have proven to have been valid. Readership has plummeted, many have been dismayed by the change, LifeSite has been widely viewed as a sedavacatist website and donations have dramatically declined this past campaign.

Without major needed change LifeSiteNews cannot survive. With common sense return to the incredibly successful founding mission and a return to collaborative management, rather than top-down, one person control, it stands a very good chance of tremendous renewal for the good of all.

We will still always been based on traditional Catholic/Christian moral principles in all we do, as we always have been.
2:33 PM · Jul 9, 2025