That which we call a rose by any other name.....
That which we call a rose by any other name.....Nope. Sorry sister, but calling a rose a lily doesn't make it one, and claiming that veneration = worship doesn't make it so. That you have been told this again and again and you persist in misrepresenting the facts takes away any claim to truth or Christian fellowship you might make. How sad is that?
I will give the Vatican translators the benefit of believing the English words "worship", "devotion" and "veneration" (all valid definitions of cultus) are included in their vocabulary and the choice of "worship" was deliberate.
The fact is Latin is not the native language of any Pope, Bishop, Priest, or any of the Vatican Staff. The "pure" Latin documents from the Vatican are necessarily a translation from another language.
Does this mean, since all "official" Vatican Latin documents are a translation of a translation none of them can be trusted? :-)