The Tridentine Mass (pre-Vatican II) was and STILL IS a very quiet and dignified worship of God.
Mary isn't worshiped, rather she is venerated as a person of extreme worth who happened to give birth to our Savior.
Denigrating Catholicism and Catholics probably isn't a good idea because the 'faith' is truly over 2,000 years old and the first head of the Church was truly St. Peter. Only until the past 50 years has the Church turned off the light that served as a beacon, not only to practicing Catholics, but all Christians.
Prayers addressed to a “person” that is not an innate part of and sharing in the divinity and power of the Godhead (i.e., not the Father, not the Son, and not the Holy Spirit) are (1) pointless, (2) self-deceptive, and (3) blasphemous.
The First and only Head of the Christian church is Jesus, the Christ. It has no human head, not one, but has suffered many spectacularly attired pretenders.