You’ve made an assertion that they do all of these things, to which I asked a pertinent question.
Are we permitted to make images of God? I’m not trying to bait or lure you in any fashion.
I have seen Catholics, every year, at Good Friday, proceed and kiss the foot of Christ on the cross, to commemorate his death. I have seen Catholics pray the Rosary, to which they ask Mary to pray for them.
Do they believe that Christ and Mary are equal? No. And the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception demonstrates why this is not so. Christ chose Mary, before she was born to be his mother. If Christ chose Mary, than he is God and she is not, Mary is Christ’s creation, not the other way around, even though Christ was born of Mary.
.....”I have seen Catholics.... kiss the foot of Christ on the cross, to commemorate his death. I have seen Catholics pray the Rosary, to which they ask Mary to pray for them.”......
Why would someone have a need to kiss a statue? Especially when Christ is alive and lives within us, readily accessable to us as He is?
As for making requests to Mary to pray for them....Again why go to a departed person...(which btw God has made very clear we are not to attempt contact with)....when we can commune directly with Christ Himself?