A: No to both. There have been many branches of Christianity that have accused the Catholic church of being iconoclastic (worshipping icons) but it's just not true. Don't you guys believe in decoration? As to Mary, we believe she is the mother of God and therefore deserves to be recognized as such. Catholics as a whole are in such awe of her amazing faith that she is used as someone to connect to, a normal girl who was chosen to be the mother of God.

A: Yes. The protestants use this term in a very different way then we do though. We do believe that when you accept Christ into your heart you will live again, but the Catholics apply the term "saved by faith through grace" therefore, not faith alone. We believe that it is possible to lose your salvation by choice. However, we would like to point out we don't believe in saved though works. We are the first to admit there is nothing you can do to 'earn' yourself eternity, but you can't just sit around either.