It’s not a shot.
You seem to think this is a competition.
I went to a wedding of dear friends a while ago. They are catholic, from Vietnam. It was a wonderful wedding at the local Mission.
Back home, after the wedding, they made their prayers and thanks to the Mary statuette with incense.
It was striking in how it exactly mirrored Buddhist practices in action and flavor, but with Mary substituted for Kuanyin.
Catholicism has retained much more of the ceremonial and ritualistic that came from the pagan world.
Nothing necessarily wrong with that, and the dynamics of history explains it.
The thing we need to all look out for is if pagan theological beliefs become intermingled with our faith or theological understandings.
So here is a question for you: Do Catholics believe that Mary is God (or god), do we worship her as divine?
You have been told the truth now les see if you are capable of understanding it and responding correctly.