The question was asked, "are Protestants saved?". Like I've been saying repeatedly, if you ask the average Catholic, the answer would be no.
As you learned, The Church teaches that Protestants are Christians, united with us in the Holy Spirit. You clearly don't know much about Catholics.
The modern declarations that Yeheren has been posting are smoke and mirrors and a denial of history.
You're disappointed to learn that Roman Catholic doctrine isn't what you had been taught it is. Why not just find a way to accommodate the truth into your worldview?
Religious liberty to the Catholic Church is liberty for herself and to hell with everyone else.
Well, let's take a look at that; from the Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church:
The right to the exercise of freedom, especially in religious and moral matters, is an inalienable requirement of the dignity of man.
Catechism of the Catholic Church - Man's freedom
Indeed, The Church is more open to those of other faiths, than most Protestant denominations:
The Catholic Church rejects nothing that is true and holy in these religions. She regards with sincere reverence those ways of conduct and of life, those precepts and teachings which, though differing in many aspects from the ones she holds and sets forth, nonetheless often reflect a ray of that Truth which enlightens all men. Indeed, she proclaims, and ever must proclaim Christ "the way, the truth, and the life" (John 14:6), in whom men may find the fullness of religious life, in whom God has reconciled all things to Himself.
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The Church reproves, as foreign to the mind of Christ, any discrimination against men or harassment of them because of their race, color, condition of life, or religion. On the contrary, following in the footsteps of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, this sacred synod ardently implores the Christian faithful to "maintain good fellowship among the nations" (1 Peter 2:12), and, if possible, to live for their part in peace with all men,(14) so that they may truly be sons of the Father who is in heaven.(15)
DECLARATION ON
THE RELATION OF THE CHURCH TO NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS
NOSTRA AETATE
PROCLAIMED BY HIS HOLINESS
POPE PAUL VI
ON OCTOBER 28, 1965
You've been indoctrinated with many lies about The Church. It's likely a little disorienting for you to learn that it's not what you were conditioned to believe it is.
During the Reformation, both Catholics and Protestants committed horrible atrocities. I think they all regret what some of their co-religionists have done. It's not the reality today. We live in the same communities without hating or fighting each other, now.
Find a way to let that reality into your life. It will heal you.