[Ransomed]

Hardly. I truly believe that you think Catholics worship Mary, and that they themselves are unaware of this worship. I’m just trying to figure out what that means.

Freegards

[William Terrell]

All of the attitude towards and actions in response to Mary by Catholics add up to worship. I really don't know what else to call it. Yet, each Catholic I talk with here denies any such behavior.

Therefore, they must be unaware of the behavior. But someone not inducted into the belief system looks at the overt action and thinks "idol worship". There are any number of those observers who have posted that opinion on these threads for years.

I severely doubt that they all met and decided in concert to level this accusation, which means each came to the same conclusion independently.