Catholics need to stop praying to her as if she is a deity...Jesus is THE ONLY WAY...
Jesus is THE ONLY WAY.... to the Father, but there are multiple paths to the Son, Mary and the saints being the best way.
Catholics do not pray to Her as though She was a Diety. Do you think that Jesus Himself did not at times ask Her for things? Well, He wants for us to do the same.
You are right, She is not God, but she is the Holy Theotokos, the Panagia! The Troparion and Kontakion of the Orthodox Liturgy for the Dormition of the Holy Theotokos says it well:
Troparion (Tone 1)
In giving birth, you preserved your virginity!
In falling asleep you did not forsake the world, O Theotokos!
You were translated to life, O Mother of Life,
And by your prayers you deliver our souls from death!
Kontakion (Tone 2)
Neither the tomb, nor death, could hold the Theotokos,
Who is constant in prayer and our firm hope in her intercessions.
For being the Mother of Life,
She was translated to life by the One who dwelt in her virginal womb!
This is what The Church, at Rome and in the East has always and everywhere believed. Anything else is heresy!
"Jesus is THE ONLY WAY..."
Sure He is, but how did He arrange for you and me to get to hear about Him, if not by the testimony of His Saints?
We would be stuck in unbelief if other co-workers or co-mediators of Christ had not brought us to Him.