???? Catholics pray to Jesus. They will sometimes ask a saint to intercede on their behalf or that of someone else. Think of it this way ... you've got an ally right there in heaven who is with Christ , right now! These individuals have merited a place in heaven by living the gospel that Christ brought to mankind.
The Council of Trent, in its 25th Session, declared the following to be the dogmatic teaching of the Catholic Church:
"...the saints, who reign together with Christ, offer up their own prayers for men . . . it is good and useful suppliantly to invoke them, and to have recourse to their prayers, aid and help for obtaining benefits from God through His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, Who is alone our Redeemer and Saviour."
The scriptures tell us that, - "For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus...
For a Catholic, this passage poses no difficulty because St. Paul is speaking about the ultimate and final mediation in Christ Jesus. It does not represent an attack on Catholic teaching because all Christians are to be mediators with Christ. All Christians are in a profound and deep sense mediators with Christ. When we witness to someone, we are fulfilling our duty as an ambassador of Christ, and the job of an ambassador is to mediate:
"We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God." (2 Cor. 5:20)
Two things to reflect carefully on:
1) St. Paul attributes Christ? mediation THROUGH the body;
2) St. Paul? appeal is ON BEHALF of Christ. This makes St. Paul a type of mediator between the world and Christ.
The mediation of the members of the body is predicated and draws its power and authority from the supreme mediation of Christ who is the true and only mediator between God and men. To say that Jesus is the only mediator does not preclude his body from participating in that mediation. How could it? There is, after all, only ONE BODY OF CHRIST (Cf. Romans 7:4, Romans 12:5, 1 Cor. 10:16-17, 1 Cor. 12:12-27, Eph. 3:6, Eph. 4:4,12,16,25, Eph. 5:23, Col 1:18, Col 3:15)! What it does exclude, however, is another way to the Father through, for instance, another prophet or religion. In existing as the body of Christ, individual members of this body are not set against Christ in His mediation, but act as a sort of conduit through which He works in this world (Cf. Rom. 15:18). Hence, our mediation is a logical corollary to this great truth since the body cannot be separated from the Head (Cf. 1 Cor. 11:3). Or, as St. Paul asks the contentious Corinthians: Is Christ now divided? (Cf. 1 Cor. 1:13) Since Christ lives through his mystical body in this world, so too therefore does His mediation.
ThThis type of logic could justify worshiping people within the church. Where would it end? Your conclusions are not scriptural.