Actually, Logitech and this story is right on the money. Christians in the West are completely ignorant of the pagan and idolatry in third world Catholic churches. I've spent a number of years aboard and saw first hand the idolatry that goes on. It is (almost) laughable at the smugness of Catholics here who try to rationalize these pagan feelings into doctrinal understanding and justify (or ignore) this behavior in order to support the "Church". No matter what the cost.
Catholicism is nothing more than a cult and this is what underscores it. It's just that western Catholics can't face this fact and bury themselves within the bubble of a splendor Vatican building and the cuteness of the "Popemobile". After all, it's fun and the pageantry gives an air of respectability.
Yet the RC Church has NOW a Pope who is teaching right out from the Bible.
That.
I have often said, here on FR, that the Catholicism you find in suburbia is not the same Catholicism you find in the rest of the world. The further you get from middle class American Roman Catholicism, the more pagan it becomes. Or perhaps most of American Catholics just disguise the paganism well.
Logitech and I are in full agreement. He is my husband and a former catholic. He is now simply a Bible-believing Christian.