Sadly it persists. The quotes and paraphrases in my post above are from an official document from the Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith (protector of fidelity of doctrine) as recent as 2004. The author is/was Joseph Card. Ratzinger, reputed as a great scholar and as Pope Benedict XVI as "the teaching Pope" and approved by then Pope John Paul II. Many hierarchs quote from its language but no one, to my knowledge has rebutted, corrected or questioned it. 
I might go a bit further than "Catholics are no different from literalist Protestants" and opine that Significant numbers of "legitimate authority" Catholic teachers are no different from fundamentalist Christian ideologists.