You are parroting an anti-Catholic slander.
Catholics worship God, and nobody and nothing else.
AMEN, second it.
In order for your assertion that Catholics worship Mary and the saints, and statues of Mary and the saints, the following would have to be true:
All the Fathers of the Church would have to be liars, publicly condemning idolatry, while secretly practicing and promoting it.
EVERY Papal and Vatican document ever published on the subject about veneration of Mary and the saints would have to be 100% lies—publicly condemning idolatry, while the secret approval of idolatry would have to be spread throughout the Church through some sort of secret channels—spread to every practicing Catholic, yet totally lost to history.
EVERY—EVERY—EVERY catechism and instructional book ever published in the Catholic Church, those used for the teaching of children, adults, converts, etc.—ALL of which explain the sin of idolatry and condemn it—would have to be lies, while the “real” teaching of the Church would have to be spread SECRETLY to a billion people, teaching them to commit idolatry. And these billion people would all have to be in on the “secret” AND these billion people would have to keep this “secret,” AND these billion people would have to be 100% committed to lying about this “secret” teaching to all the other people of the earth.
Catholics are “defensive” about their adoration of Mary and the saints?
Protestants kidnap and eat Catholic babies. Whenever I bring this up to Protestants, they get very defensive about it.