With these being an eye opener for you and basically your entire family being a catholic, have you consulted the closest to you which are your family and catholics about your discovery?
What is there views?
Oh yes credit to James Munder, is he a Catholic as well?
The catholic uses symbols and there are explanations behind them but you could be right and the entire catholic could be "occult" but I will suggest you get your facts right religions are very sensitive issues