Very true, and it should be pointed out that SSPX priests do not have ordinary jurisdiction. I thought that most trads knew that - but evidently not. The way that supplied jurisdiction works is that a Catholic approaches the priest (who has supplied jurisdiction) for the sacraments. The priest does not approach a stranger (who doesn't attend an SSPX chapel) to administer the sacraments. The SSPX is an easy target these days.

Why didn't you ask a sedevacantist priest to help your father?

I hope your Father is okay AMDGJMJ, I will keep him in my prayers.

I am really surprised to hear this about Fr MacPherson, I have a lot of time for him, I think he is a really genuine priest. He is right, of course, telling you to get a NO priest in danger of death if no certainly-validly-ordained priest could get to your Father in time to give him certainly valid sacraments. If this were not the case, and yet he made no suggestion to get a Traditional priest to your Father, then that would leave me very disappointed (and surprised) indeed. The only exception I can imagine would be if your Father was not a Traditional Catholic, and had not agreed to see a Trad priest, and the distance for the priest to travel was considerable.

However, a similar (or worse) thing happened to me some years back when I tried to get an SSPX priest to a Resistance Catholic in the throes of death. The person in question actually went to the SSPX to Mass with me only a month or so earlier. He had been with the SSPX for decades prior to the Resistance. A good, simple soul he was, with no guile. He had been given the Last Rites a few months earlier, but he bounced back, made it out of hospital and was doing quite well, so in the mind of the Church he certainly should have received the Last Rites again. I went to the priory to get the SSPX priest to take him to give the Last Rites, but he refused outright, saying: "I warned you from the pulpit". A couple of hours later the man was dead. May he rest in peace. I wrote to several superiors about the incident. All but one ignored the letter, the one who replied saying: "You should have called the NO priest. Unlike the Resistance, the SSPX considers them to be valid priests". Rather shocking don't you think? Imagine a man drowning at the beach and you go to the lifeguard, and he refuses to go to his aid: "I warned him not to swim outside the flags"! Then you complain to the authorities and they commend the lifeguard and tell you that you should have thrown the drowning victim a piece of string...

Why didn't you ask a sedevacantist priest to help your father?

The jurisdiction is given nonetheless. Someone is approaching the priest on his behalf. Let's not get too legalistic, Meg! The supreme law of the Church is the salvation of souls.

I think the faithful deserve an explanation of their new policy of deferring to the novus ordo for administering sacraments. And if they do believe that all novus ordo priests and sacraments are valid then they have absolutely no business doing what they are doing.  It completely undermines the state of necessity that was proclaimed by the Archbishop.

This is very troubling. Only four years ago a priest from the Va seminary came to visit my father, who was a non-practicing novus ordo Catholic, at the hospital upon my request.  He was not in danger of dying, but old and had just had major surgery so I felt it was a crucial time for him to be guided back to the Church before it was too late.
My understanding at the time was that you could rely on an SSPX priest to come when called without hesitation or conditions, and that was exactly what occurred.

Now the policy seems to have changed, perhaps in reaction to Burbidge (Arlington diocese bishop) making such a big deal about the Society's presence in Front Royal. If this is the case, we are in trouble. Since when does the Society worry about what the novus ordo prelates say about them?  Do they only abide by the rules when called out on them? 

I think the faithful deserve an explanation of their new policy of deferring to the novus ordo for administering sacraments. And if they do believe that all novus ordo priests and sacraments are valid then they have absolutely no business doing what they are doing.  It completely undermines the state of necessity that was proclaimed by the Archbishop.