That's pretty ironic considering that RC;s always brag on numbers (1.2 billion strong) as if numbers mean anything.
It's not pride. it's hubris.
Physician, heal thyself.
As Pope Benedict pointed out well before he was pope, the Catholic Church is smaller than we think, meaning that many who call themselves Catholic, really are not. Meaning they don’t follow the teachings. I find that those say it is 1.2 billion strong are the ones who reject some, or large chunk of the Churches teachings. So points to you for seeing something that is a truly prideful statement and against our Lords command that we be humble as the Father in Heaven is. To bad, those who are picking and choosing what to believe are just like Protestants.
Those of us who do follow, don’t brag about it since this is salvation we are talking about here, our Lord commands us to be humble. You really like to lump everyone into one camp when its convenient to you rather than seeing the whole, quite telling looking into the state of your mind. Second, the number of souls that go to Heaven mean everything to our Lord, unfortunately as stated above, the Church is smaller than we think, much smaller. But hey, numbers don’t mean anything? Right? May I put words into your mouth, like ‘Those many throughout the world who have not come to our Lord, are just numbers which doesn’t mean anything?’ I suspect you would not agree with a statement like this, and yet you carelessly make statements without fully examining the issues of the very statement you make and makes for a truly stupid statement not to mention you seem to like placing words into my mouth with false assumptions and narratives.
Hubris = Excessive pride
So What is the Difference Here?!?!?!?!?! Do you even bother to read what you are writing? Our Lord commands us to be humble. Period. Hubris, pride is the same to our Lord. Care to explain yourself here? for you are confirming your pride.
If your going to have one liners like “physician, heal thyself” in wake of the colossal error you made above, please explain what this reference means to you in this post, as you have completely jumped off the rails here.