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Did peter build a statue of Jesus and bow before it on the day of Pentecost?

This is like talking to a brick wall. Catholics do not BOW DOWN before statues. What part of this do you not understand?

This statue business crept into the Catholic Church long after the Apostles had passed on and was just one more step on the road to the need for the reformation.

Wrong again. Veneration of saints began in the Catacombs, when images and symbols representing various Christian martyrs marked tomb sites where people would pray.

If the Catechism has remained unchanged since Pentecost Sunday,

Again, context-deficiency syndrome. The Catechism is a documentation of the same Truth that existed on Pentecost Sunday before a single word of the New Testament was laid to papyrus. The Truth doesn't change unless Martin Luther says so, apparently. It's irrelevant when the New Testament was written. The content is the immovable Truth which existed before the earth was even created.

Funny, I don't find any references to Mary veneration or statues or relics or rosaries or veneration of saints or purgatory in the book of acts or in the early writings of the Apostles found in the cannon of scripture.

Funny, I don't see any reference to Trinities or schisms or reformations, either. December 25th? Not biblical --- Tradition. Sunday services? Not biblical --- Tradition. Altar calls? Not biblical. Declaring Jesus as your personal saviour? Not biblical. Sola Scriptura? Utterly, completely unbiblical. Faith alone? Utterly, totally, unbiblical.

Mary: "All nations will call me blessed..." Purgatory: Directly implied by Jesus, "every last penny will be repaid", and directly referred to in prayers for the dead in Maccabees 2, which Luther removed because it directly threatened his heresy against Purgatory.

Maybe Luke didn't have access to the official catechism when he penned the Book of Acts.

Of course he didn't. The catechism reflects the works of biblical authors and oral tradition passed down by the Apostles and Church Fathers from generation to generation.