[InterestedQuestioner]

I can remember a ninth grader telling me that Catholics worship statues. It's scary, I had the same discussion with him that's in the first part of the article. He was absolutely certain that Catholics worship statues, and told me it was true because his pastor said so. That was supposed to settle it.

[RosieCotton]

Yeah...I've had that discussion a number of times. Once when I was stationed in Italy, a group of us went to a nearby town, and one of the guys in the group asked people to wait up while he took a photo of "this idol here" - said idol being St. Anthony of Padua. So I asked him about it and got the whole spiel. "Well, you see, Catholics build these idols and pray to them and offer flowers and blah blah blah". I informed him that I *was* Catholic and we did no such thing, and tried to explain it all to him, but was basically dismissed as not knowing my faith. Um...kay.