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Novus Ordo people need to be treated like converts/protestants.  They are no better than that.  They have very little Catholicity, if at all, in their background.  For sure they need a catechism course, along with checking their sacramental background (baptism).  The True Faith and its beliefs and practices is way different than what the New Church offers.  Such people need to catch up and adapt/convert before receiving Holy Communion. They must first be allowed to see what they are getting into and if they agree to truly be "True Catholic."  

I understand where you're coming from, and I'm not disagreeing that the SSPX has become very worldly and is full of problems, but there is one way in which all Trad priests' hands are tied. Let me put it this way:

What would you think about a chapel which scrutinized each potential member, treating them as non-Catholic until proven otherwise? Background checks, signing statements, written abjurations, cross examination by a panel of clerics and/or laypeople, and "guilty until proven innocent" with regards to being a "True Catholic"?

What would you say about such a group to your friends offline and online? I guarantee you would call them a CULT and you wouldn't be far off base!

It's even more than public relations though: what about the status of Trad chapels and Supplied Jurisdiction? Let's put it this way: the Catholic Church has NEVER been an exclusive club where the lukewarm and bad Catholics are barred at the door. If a chapel is to receive "supplied jurisdiction" from the Church to open essentially a "franchise" of the Catholic Church, don't they have to operate under the bylaws and rules of that franchise?

Operating a franchise without permission of the franchise owner is illegal. In the world of religion, opening a branch of the Catholic Church but refusing to follow all her laws is SCHISM. You're starting your own church.

The Catholic Church (which every single Trad chapel wants to be part of, and connected to) has ALWAYS been, from the very beginning, a net full of fishes, which the fisherman sifts through, throwing the good ones into the KEEP bucket and the crap into the slop bucket for the animals. See also: the parable of the Wheat and the Tares, "Many are called but few are chosen", etc.

As soon as you move beyond that, and try to "improve" upon Christ's Church -- even with the best of intentions -- you begin treading the path of every "reformer" (HERETIC!) in history.

I understand where you're coming from, and I'm not disagreeing that the SSPX has become very worldly and is full of problems, but there is one way in which all Trad priests' hands are tied. Let me put it this way:

What would you think about a chapel which scrutinized each potential member, treating them as non-Catholic until proven otherwise? Background checks, signing statements, written abjurations, cross examination by a panel of clerics and/or laypeople, and "guilty until proven innocent" with regards to being a "True Catholic"?

What would you say about such a group to your friends offline and online? I guarantee you would call them a CULT and you wouldn't be far off base!

It's even more than public relations though: what about the status of Trad chapels and Supplied Jurisdiction? Let's put it this way: the Catholic Church has NEVER been an exclusive club where the lukewarm and bad Catholics are barred at the door. If a chapel is to receive "supplied jurisdiction" from the Church to open essentially a "franchise" of the Catholic Church, don't they have to operate under the bylaws and rules of that franchise?

Operating a franchise without permission of the franchise owner is illegal. In the world of religion, opening a branch of the Catholic Church but refusing to follow all her laws is SCHISM. You're starting your own church.

The Catholic Church (which every single Trad chapel wants to be part of, and connected to) has ALWAYS been, from the very beginning, a net full of fishes, which the fisherman sifts through, throwing the good ones into the KEEP bucket and the crap into the slop bucket for the animals. See also: the parable of the Wheat and the Tares, "Many are called but few are chosen", etc.

As soon as you move beyond that, and try to "improve" upon Christ's Church -- even with the best of intentions -- you begin treading the path of every "reformer" (HERETIC!) in history.

This describes perfectly many a fundamentalist Protestant sect.  I know because I’ve been there, done that.  It doesn’t work.  The SSPX and other traditional Catholic groups, ALL Catholics in fact, need to be properly catechized, not just on the facts but on the application in life outside the confines of the chapel property, but it’s nothing one can legislate by rules beyond the Church as a whole.  

I don't understand why modesty is not enforced at the door of chapels, whether SSPX, ICKSP, FSSP whatever.

If you go to Rome they give all the women a blue sash to cover their chest or legs if their skirts are too short. We really need to get back to priests supporting the ushers enforcement of these rules. I've only been to one SSPX parish in my 15 years as a trad where an usher checked you at the door and made you dress modestly, and that was Fr. Danel's parish in Roswell, GA, and I'm not even sure if it's still enforced anymore since I haven't been there in 5 years.

We're going to pay a price if we don't get this modesty thing under control, it is one of the biggest problems in traditional Catholicism right now IMO.

Feminism and worldliness needs to be heavily denounced from the pulpit these days. Nothing is being said or done.

There is a new family at my parish, they've been there about 2 months now and this guy's wife dresses like a total hooker. 4 or 5 inch heels. Skirt mid thigh. Low cut top.

We had a parish picnic today and she was wearing a MINI SKIRT. A MINI SKIRT. Priests said nothing, no one said anything to her. This miniskirt was 3/4ths the way up her thigh. It's what a hooker would literally wear on the street. It's just unbelievable to me.

Sometimes I feel like I should say something but I have no idea how to approach the situation, she isn't my wife and her husband should know better. He has 6 kids and is a cradle Catholic.