[paladinan]

Worship belongs to God alone.

In the modern sense of "latria", yes. In the ancient, original sense of the word ("paying honor to that which is worthy"), no. Words mean things; and the modern meaning is not always the original meaning, or even the best meaning. I suspect that people, dwelling on the idea that "Only God is worthy" (without finishing the sentence--a nasty habit of modern people), gradually excluded everything but God from that word's usage. Their hearts were most probably in the right place... but their English skills were getting muddled, and they succeeded in neutralizing a perfectly good word of its original meaning, to the point where no one can use it in the original sense without a tiresome list of qualifiers.

(Read "Mere Christianity" for more detail on that phenomenon; C.S. Lewis laments the destruction of the word "gentleman", in that same manner.)

For example (and this is especially pertinent, when dealing with Christian sensibilities): the word "pray" originally meant "to ask"; e.g. "I pray thee, tell me what you mean?", meaning, "I ask you, tell me what you mean." Nowadays, the word has "morphed" into a limited use in which (especially in Protestant circles) it's used for God alone... and that was never its intended purpose.

Adoration belongs to God alone. We are quite free to "worship" (in the old sense of venerating, or paying honor) that which is worthy.

[Iscool]

For example (and this is especially pertinent, when dealing with Christian sensibilities): the word "pray" originally meant "to ask"; e.g. "I pray thee, tell me what you mean?", meaning, "I ask you, tell me what you mean." Nowadays, the word has "morphed" into a limited use in which (especially in Protestant circles) it's used for God alone... and that was never its intended purpose.

Not true at all...Pray thee and pray to have always had different definitions...And still do...The dishonestly of many Catholics constantly muddles that difference when confronted with praying TO your saints and Mary...

Pray to has always meant worship while pray thee has always been a a request...And still does...