In Catholicism, terms such as the “unanimous consent” of the fathers , "unbroken," and "worship," can be defined as needed to absolve her of error.
Thus as said, bowing down to a statute and attributing to the person it represent attributes and glory that are uniquely ascribed to God/Christ in Scripture, including the power to hear in Heaven incessant multitudinous mental prayers addressed to them from earth and respond to them, and imploring such for heavenly aid, cannot be understood as idolatry though it would be in Scripture, but it is explained as merely being "hyperdulia," and not "latria" (which Rome states is the manner of adoration reserved for God).
