You said: Catholics have no problem telling Protestants they are going to hell because they don’t belong to ‘The Church’
Um. Wrong. Catholics in particular do not judge the eternal destination of anybody, Catholic or non-Catholic. There is not one person who has ever lived that the Catholic Church (or practicing Catholics) states is in hell or destined for hell. Catholic belief is that only God can judge.
Now I do not doubt that you can find some Catholics who would make a pronouncement like that, but they would be wrong. Just like the time when my kids were going trick or treating on Halloween many moons ago and a Baptist family down the street told them they were going to hell because they were Catholics.
So Catholics believe non-Catholics can be saved without the sacraments????
My first exposure to anti-Catholic bigotry came from a
Baptist. I remember it like it was yesterday, I was almost 6 and we were visiting relatives. My uncle told my father very angrily that all Catholics were going to hell. My father quietly disagreed with him and changed the subject but I was scandalized.
After we left I asked my father why he had just basically let it go and he said it wasn’t worth arguing with him but I remember going on about it for a while.
I do wonder why I was so upset because we weren’t Catholic. Maybe the Holy Spirit was already working in my life at that young age but it still took 40 yrs for me to listen.
That may well be the official line from the Vatican, however, since the days of Martin Luther, PLENTY of practicing Roman Catholics, as well as Curia speaking for the Roman Church itself, have stated certain Protestants (like Luther) or all Protestants (who believe in sola fide) as it says in Trent, are accursed (anathema)--which meant, in the language of the 16th Century, in Hell.
The idea that the Roman Church has (always) been as tolerant and open minded as it is today is laughable, to any fair-minded student of history.