Verga, if that is your belief, then (what’s in the link), then what do you make of what Catholic media (TV and radio) say? Between the two, I’ve heard thousands of hours of Catholic teaching, and what I’ve regularly heard is the Catholic speakers (including I would say priests) speak of Christians who aren’t Catholic as separated brethren who are Christians, but just “don’t have the fullness” of the Christian faith because they aren’t Roman Catholic. That, it seems to me, in fact, is the reigning Catholic perspective on Christians who aren’t Catholic.
I guess Catholics are pretty much free to interpret the CCC as they see fit.
Some think that absolutely there is no salvation outside the Catholic church.
Others think there can be.
The CCC isn’t clear on it either. It plays both ends against the middle so that no matter what side a non-Catholic is on, some Catholic can come along and tell them they’re wrong.
As another FReeper observed, you can state a position that some Catholic told you about and another Catholic will come along and castigate you for it.
You just never know when you’re talking to a Catholic which side of whatever it is you’re talking about, they are going to come down on.
IO have found it to be especially true on FR of those claiming to be ex-Catholic. Yet they say the most ridiculous things about Catholicism.
When you ask them who taught them that they slink away or change the subject.