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"You do understand for something to be an idol it has to be worshipped, do you not?"

Are you preparing to insist to me that Roman Catholics do not worship their statues and images? If so, I would reply this way: American Roman Catholics would always try to insist to American non-Catholics (I am not Protestant either, at least not in the Geneva sense) that they don't actually "worship" the images and statues. But this is only because there are sufficient numbers of non-Catholic Bible-believers in America to influence you into this argument, taking you to task if you would admit to "worshipping" these man-made things.

Remember that American Roman Catholics are far outnumbered by third-world Roman Catholics, who are under the authority of the very same King Benedict. And if you travel into the villages of, say, the Philippines, and ask a Filipino Roman Catholic whether he is worshipping that statue of Mary, he will answer with the Tagalog equivalent of "What's wrong with you, Man, of Course I am!!"

And NO Filipino Roman Catholic priest would correct their parishioners for describing what they do at the statues and images as "worship."

Your opinion of what Roman Catholics do with idols is out-voted by the members of your own church outside of the United States.