Catholics bow down to her, in violation of the second commandment. Catholics can relabel worship as anything they want to deny the obvious, but bowing down is bowing down and that can be objectively seen by all.
If Catholics don’t consider bowing to, praying to, *adoring* someone as worship, then I guess they don’t worship God either.
Bowing to each other is a common greeting in half the world. Are they in violation of the second commandment? Words have definitions for a reason. They are not one in the same. Adoration is NOT the same as worship.
If I bow or kneel in front of a statue to pray, I may be praying to God, I may be asking a particular saint to pray for me for a special intention as I would ask a friend to pray for me. I do not think that statue has any powers on its own. It is simply a beautiful work of art that brings to mind that saint and helps me focus my prayers.
If a person were to kneel in prayer with a Bible in his hands, would he be worshiping the Bible? By your standards we would have to believe this is true because that is what it looks like. What if a person had just read some very comforting words in the Bible, closed it and gave it a little hug from joy, how is this any different from a person touching the foot of a statue of a particular saint they love? Again, it’s not the statue they adore but brings to mind the person in Heaven whether it be a saint that they can relate to that helps bring them closer to God.