Do you think doing a word study is going to change the facts that many catholics bow, pray to, light candles to, have festivals and parades with images of idols, and builds shrines to their idols.... as people attempt to even touch these wooden figures in hopes for healing or favors......you can't be so Nieve... well maybe.
Why should anyone take your opinion and accusations of idolatry seriously if you don't know what an idol is and couldn't tell one if you saw it?
This is the “beauty of the Catholic Church”. They define what idolatry is then the “faithful” follow their definition. Never mind what the Bible says it is. If it’s not idolatry in the CC, then it’s not idolatry. How CONVENIENT, yet again, for the CC..