You raise a good point here. It is indeed how we look at an issue, that can color our opinion of it, sometimes negatively.
Where I would disagree is with your implication that Catholics aren’t Christ centered. Let’s take the issue Dr. E brought up, the title of “Mother of God” for Mary.
This title wasn’t given to her because of some “Mary centric desire”. It was to counter a heresy quite present at the time that asserted Jesus was not both fully God and fully Man. Some at the time were asserting Jesus was only a Man, because how could Mary give birth to God? (sound familiar? It should. It’s the exact same argument those who reject the title Theotokos still use today. Indeed, there truly isn’t anything new under the sun! Those who refuse the lesson of history are doomed to repeat it. But I digress. )
The point is, that the title “Theotokos” is NOT “Mary centric”, but is actually “Christ centric”, because it correctly forces one to realize a truth about Christ, to whit, that He is fully Man and Fully God.
So yes, it is critical to approach an issue with the correct frame of mind. I believe this is why one of the Beatitudes is, “Blessed are the poor in spirit”. I believe a devout meditation of that passage would be very helpful for many on the Religion forum.
Roman Catholics tell themselves all sorts of rationalizations for their actions and beliefs that are clearly prohibited in Scripture.
Mary is not “the Mother of God,” the “Queen of the Universe,” the “Dispensatrix of all Grace,” a “Mediator,” a “Reconcilor,” an “Advocate,” nor is she “the Mother of all Humanity.”
Every one of those titles demeans the Triune God because it takes His glory and gives it to a creature who was fallen like the rest of us, and saved by grace like some of us.