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I think it's amazing (amazingly sad, that is), that you think yourself competent to judge another person's salvation based only off the datapoint that he's a Catholic. So all Catholics are "lost," in your view?

According to official Catholic doctrine and hundreds of years of teaching, all non-Catholics are lost.

I don't see any other "Protestant" religion that makes it a part of their official statement of faith that if you don't join their specific denomination or church you are bound for hell as Catholicism teaches about those outside of it.

Even in the Catechism of the Catholic church is the sub heading of *Outside the Church there is no salvation.*

“Outside the Church there is no salvation”

846 How are we to understand this affirmation, often repeated by the Church Fathers? Re-formulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body:

Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and Baptism, and thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church which men enter through Baptism as through a door. Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it.

Just for the record, JESUS is the door. The Catholic religion is again trying to usurp Christ in salvation by inserting itself between the individual and Christ.