The Protestant "play book" that I am quoting from is "Our Faith and the Facts" Compiled by the Reverend C. F. Donovan, M.A. (former Managing Editor of "The New World",the official Catholic Newspaper of the Archdiocese of Chicago. It bears the 'Nihil Obstat' of The Very Reverend F.N. McCabe, C.M. D.D. Censor Deputatus; and as stated the Catholic Imprimatur of George Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago. March 2,1925.
The book is a 718 page work on the Faith of the Catholic Church with history, beliefs and a section designed to aid Catholics in answering questions posed by non Catholics about the faith. To that end, is an extensive Q&A section on various aspects of the religion, which I have quoted here in part.
Perhaps you haven't heard these things before, but it was the official teaching of the Church in pre-Vatican days, and accurately reflects the horrors that many of us experienced and rebelled against.
See #12. BTW, if you were old enough to experience the "horrors" of those pre-Vatican II days using 1925 sources, you must be about 100 years old right now. Another lie. Hard to keep up with them, isn't it?;-)
Must say that you are easily horrified. Obviously you have a Protestant sensibility and an aversion to sacramentals, relics or any object with tangible religious value, except the Bible itself. It goes with the iconoclasm that has so tainted the reforms coming out of the council and which much like that of the Lutherans has something of the fanatical in it.