https://x.com/jalsevacs/status/1943060853881999769?s=46&t=R4xyMNVYgeB6hu6jyd3HHASteve Jalsevac
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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.
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