And the Lord spoke all these words: I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me. Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me: And shewing mercy unto thousands to them that love me, and keep my commandments. (Exodus 20:1-6)The prohibition against graven images and bowing down to them is in the context of the commandment against turning toward false gods, not against all carved images per se. Indeed, God himself commanded that two golden cherubim be placed above the ark, and that a brazen serpent be placed upon a staff. Neither did our Lord object to the carved image of Caesar on the coin that was presented to him. Since Catholics do not see Mary as a god or bow before her statues as as act of worship to a god, there is no violation of the commandment. Try again.
All of a sudden context counts?
Any excuse to disobey the command of God to keep up your traditions is not going to end well for Catholics.
Apparently Roman Catholicism did not think so or they recognized the prohibition as applying to what they do because in their version of the Ten Commandments, they eliminated the second one and split the last one on coveting into two so they could still come up with ten.