OF course Catholics idolize her.
They literally make statutes, put them on a pedestal, bow down before them and pray to them while bowing down.
THAT is idolizing her.
If bowing to anyone but God is idolatry, then King David and most of the revered (oops!) faithful ones of Israel were idolaters.
1 Kings 1:15 Bathsheba bows low (face to the ground) and kneels before the aged king David
2 Kings 1:13 the captain kneels before the prophet Elijah, and “prays” him to spare his life and the life of his 50 men
Moses bows down to father-in-law;
Ruth bows down to Boaz;
David prostrates before Jonathan;
David prostrates to Saul;
Abigail prostrates to David;
Saul prostrates to Samuel;
Nathan prostrates to David; Obadiah bows to the ground before Elijah;
the prophets in Jericho bow before Elisha;
the “whole assembly” bows low and prostrates before David;
David bows to the Temple;
David prostrates to Jerusalem;
God causes the king’s adversaries to bow prostrate on the ground and “lick the dust at his feet”;
God promises: the sons of the oppressors will bow to Zion.
And of course the majority of Christians from the martyrs in the First Century catacombs in Rome to the martyred Christian Chaldeans in 21st Century Iraq, are blasphemers and idolators.
And if so, ISiS is right, after all.
In your view, do all of these bows and prostrations,referenced above, constitute a violation of the First Commandment?
If YES, why are these bows/prostrations so often repeated by righteous people, and never condemned in context?
If NO, why is this NOT a violation of the First Commandment?
No. Actually, that is venerating her.