[CarrotAndStick]

No. Remember that's what's being venerated here in the minds of those partaking this ritual is the Blood of Christ and it is by that Blood by which we are redemmed.

I don't think any one who prays to a block of carved stone or wood fragments to begin with, does so in any other way, Catholics or otherwise.

[Tribune7]

I don't think any one who prays to a block of carved stone or wood fragments to begin with, does so in any other way, Catholics or otherwise.

That's true and that's the point.

If in your mind you are praying to a block of carved stone or wood fragments, you are committing idolatry.