If that isn't "sweeping criticism," I am much mistaken. I am glad, therefore, to have your more recent explanation. I am also glad to see your acknowledgment that Protestants can be saved. That topic has been controversial in this thread--there is by no means a consensus among the Catholics herein.
You still fail to appreciate that, regardless of your lack of interjection into Protestant threads, just how offensive your posts are. Both you and NYer seem never to have given it the least thought, much less inventing with the Holy Spirit's aid some winsome way to make your point. The Gospel cannot avoid being a stumbling block for some, but surely there is no need to roll additional boulders around it.
You have given me a fair hearing, so I will subside now, trusting in the Holy Spirit to lead you as a Christian into all truth. I hope you will in the future be more inclined to let Him do the same for we Protestants.
This is the teaching of the Church: one can be sanctified by the Catholic Church and save his soul outside of the visible boundary of the Church. When that happens, one is still saved in the Catholic Church, outside of which there is no salvation. Since the doctrine is a bit paradoxical, it is not surprising that when a telegraphic style of discussion is used, there seems to be no consensus.
how offensive your posts are
What B-Chan said, in 52.