>>>”But the Catholics said. “We need not shrink from admitting that candles, like incense and lustral water, were commonly employed in pagan worship and the rites paid to the dead. But the Church from a very early period took them into her service, just as she adopted many other things indifferent in themselves, which seemed proper to enhance the splendor of religious ceremonial. We must not forget that most of these adjuncts to worship, like music, lights, perfumes, ablutions, floral decorations, canopies, fans, screens, bells, vestments etc. were not identified with any idolatrous cult in particular; but they were common to almost all cults” (Catholic Encyclopedia, III, 246.)<<<
It is sorta “in-your-face”, isn’t it, like “Holy Father.”
It’s flabbergasting that Catholics don’t see what the RCC has done. Do a search on Catholic paganism if you haven’t already. It will stun you. From the rituals to the symbols to the vestments. As an example, that pointy hat that looks like an open mouthed fish the priests where is exactly like the hat the priests to the fish god Dagon whore.