The Roman Catholic Church views it as harmless to give Mary reverence and bow down to her,because she gave birth to Christ.
But it is wrong because they are exalting Mary in which they should not do.They call her the Queen of heaven,and Mother of God.Jesus told us to not exalt Mary by two stories in the Bible,and that Mary is no better than any other saint,and not to exalt her.
Jesus was speaking to a crowd,and his disciples said,Jesus your mother and brethren are outside the crowd wanting to speak to you,and Jesus said,who is My mother and who are my brethren,and pointed at his disciples and said,behold My mother and brethren,for whoever does the will of God,the same is My mother,brethren,and sisters.
Jesus is illustrating the point that his mother and brethren are no better than the crowd that He was speaking to,for Jesus is saying,why should I leave off speaking to this crowd to attend to My mother and brethren,when this crowd is just as important as them.
Jesus said that anybody that does the will of God is equal with Mary,so if they are going to make a statue of Mary they should make statues of other saints.
Jesus was speaking to a crowd,and a woman spoke up and said,blessed is the woman that gave birth to you,but Jesus said,yea,rather,blessed is he that hears the word of God and does it.
Jesus is saying that anybody that does the will of God is just as blessed as Mary.
They bow down to Mary and that is wrong.God said to not make an image of anything in the sea,or on land,or in the air,or in heaven,and bow down to it.God said to not make an image of a man or a woman and bow down to it.God said do not even make an image of Him and bow down to it,for you do not know what He looks like.
They say Mary makes intercession for the saints,but this is not true.The Bible says the only mediator between God and men,is the man Christ Jesus,and the only one that makes intercession for the saints is Christ.
But the Catholic Church tries to act like they are not offending,like it is harmless because of her role in giving birth to Christ,but it is offensive to God.
The truth is the Roman Catholic Church is a blending of the occult and Christianity,which you can tell by the things they do openly,so the pagan religions have a female deity and they have to have one too,and I believe the Vatican and Pope are even more occultic,and will slowly introduce more of the occult to the outer Churches as time goes on.