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You can't prove anything unless you can read hearts and know for certainty the interior disposition of a soul. Since I know for a fact that is beyond your capabilities, you can keep your so called proof and file it under misinformation.

Word games. Semantics. Worship=Veneration period. You can't prove millions of catholics don't worship Mary unless you read hearts. So stop the hypocrisy.

But it is you who are playing word games. If I say that an old man is venerable, I am not asserting he is worthy of worship, but of honor. You are the one who is making a false equivalence. Veneration = honor as the usage of the cognate 'venerable' shows.

As we worship God, who became Man for our salvation in the person of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, should we not honor His mother who by her willing assent became the vehicule for this marvelous salvation, who in her loving submission to God is a model for our relation to God? Should we not honor His friends the saints whom He has honored by working wonders through them, spreading the Holy Gospel throughout the world, healing the sick, succoring those in need both material and spiritual?