“Catholics make offerings to images? Since when? Where? How does that work? What do they offer?”
Jeremiah 44:17
“But we will certainly do whatever has gone out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, were well-off, and saw no trouble.”
What was the first act of the new Pope but to bow to and pray toward an image of Mary’s supposed likeness while offering flowers and incense at the Basilica of St. Mary Major, which is “dedicated to Mary, the Mother of God”?
https://insidethevatican.com/back-issues/april-2013/pope-francis-first-day
“How do the images feel about it?”
Images don’t have feelings. You should be more worried about how the true and living God feels about your offering incense to the “Queen of Heaven”:
Jeremiah 44:4
“I have sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, ‘Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate!’”
But Mary IS the Mother of God. All Westerns Christians have agreed on this since the beginning. Luther and Calvin would have decked you if you’d dared to deny it.
PS: the article makes no mention of incense.
And even if it did, what would make you think it had been offered to an image?
Were the Jews in the Temple in Jerusalem practicing idolatry when they burnt incense before the altar?
Does a soldier offer worship to a piece of cloth when he salutes the flag?
Get real.