I was born and raised Roman Catholic. I also attended Catholic school and was both an altar boy and a Columbian Squire.

As far as it supposedly taking too long to explain why Mary is referred to as the Morning Star AKA Stella Matutina by the Roman Catholics, here's the profane version-

Mary, Morning Star

The Blessed Virgin Mary is perhaps the most simple to understand, visually. It should also be familiar phraseology for Catholics. Catholic tradition refers to Mary as the morning star because, like the star that rises early in the morning to reveal the day (Venus), as the Mother of God, “Mary appeared on the horizon of salvation history before Christ,” as Pope St. John Paul II puts it in Redemptoris Mater.

Source is the National Catholic Register - https://www.ncregister.com/blog/who-is-the-morning-star-in-the-bible-mary-jesus-or-lucifer

Which goddess is also associated with the planet Venus?

Ishtar!

Ishtar’s primary legacy from the Sumerian tradition is the role of fertility figure; she evolved, however, into a more complex character, surrounded in myth by death and disaster, a goddess of contradictory connotations and forces—fire and fire-quenching, rejoicing and tears, fair play and enmity. The Akkadian Ishtar is also, to a greater extent, an astral deity, associated with the planet Venus.

With Shamash, the sun god, and Sin, the moon god, she forms a secondary astral triad. In this manifestation her symbol is a star with 6, 8, or 16 rays within a circle. As goddess of Venus, delighting in bodily love, Ishtar was the protectress of prostitutes and the patroness of the alehouse. Part of her cult worship probably included temple prostitution. Her popularity was universal in the ancient Middle East, and in many centres of worship she probably subsumed numerous local goddesses. In later myth she was known as Queen of the Universe, taking on the powers of An, Enlil, and Enki.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ishtar-Mesopotamian-goddess

Archived link - https://archive.ph/myoXR

That's interesting. Mary is also known as Queen of the Universe and even has basilicas named that in her honor...

https://maryqueenoftheuniverse.org/

Also, it states Ishtar was related to both Sun and Moon worship in the Encyclopedia Brittanica article.

I wonder why this statue of Mary found in a Roman Catholic Church depicts her sitting on the moon?

https://files.catbox.moe/icb897.jpg

As far as the Apocrypha which you state were removed from the King James version, you apparently fail to realize those 7 books were included in the 1611 Authorised Version and there are actually 15 books.

 1 Esdras
 2 Esdras
 Tobit
 Judith
 Additions to Esther
 Wisdom of Solomon
 Ecclesiasticus
 Baruch
 Letter of Jeremiah
 Prayer of Azariah
 Susanna
 Bel and the Dragon
 Prayer of Manasseh
 1 Maccabees
 2 Maccabees

Here's a screenshot of the Book of Ecclesiasticus as it appeared in the 1611 KJV, in fact-

https://files.catbox.moe/vj9kb2.jpg

Who removed the Apocrypha from later versions of the King James? They weren't removed until 1885 A.D.

From the 1828 Webster's Dictionary-

APOC'RYPHA, noun [Gr. from, to conceal.]

Literally such things as are not published; but in an appropriate sense, books whose authors are not known; whose authenticity, as inspired writings, is not admitted, and which are therefore not considered a part of the sacred canon of the scripture. When the Jews published their sacred books, they called them canonical and divine; such as they did not publish, were called apocryphal. The apocryphal books are received by the Romish Church as canonical, but not by Protestants.

https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/Apocrypha

The 15 books of the Apocrypha are only found in the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. The Apocrypha were Jewish history books and were not considered to be divinely inspired even in the time of Jesus.

As far as your claims the Holy Spirit has guided the Roman Catholic Church for 2000 years-

1. Did the Holy Spirit guide Roman Catholics to exterminate Anabaptists simply because they believed the Bible taught the doctrine of water baptism by immersion instead of sprinkling?

2. Did the Holy Spirit guide Roman Catholics to attempt to assassinate King James and the entire British Parliament with explosives because King James dared to publish the Bible in English and distribute it to the profane?

3. Did the Holy Spirit guide Roman Catholic priests and bishops to castrate altar boys so they wouldn't lose their youthful voices and features as they got older?

4. Did the Holy Spirit guide Roman Catholic leadership to cover up the existence of pedophile priests and shield them from secular authorities, and to move them around the country and the world to avoid prosecution?