Which is exactly what the lady in the article did. Not healthy.
If I ask a fellow believer to pray for me you would evince no shock at all. That is what Christians do. But, if that person passes onto the next life you suddenly think he cannot do this or I cannot ask him
Passing from this earth obiously alters the physical state. There is no longer any 2-way communication such as one had when one could look a person in the face and give AND receive communication. The relationship has changed...and that is what happens when the perishable perishes. This world and the next are different.
Catholics pretend that the same type of communion is still in effect as if you had a christian neighbor next door. It is not and you should not pretend you have such a relationship when a person goes on to glory.
Which is exactly what the lady in the article did. Not healthy.
I think it may be possible to criticize what the person in the article did, and many Catholics would likely be first in line to do so. But that doesn't mean that Catholics praying to Mary or the saints actually seek to communicate with ghosts, as spiritualists do. I am not sure I am comfortable with exactly what this person did, but it is not quite spiritualism even at its worst.
Passing from this earth obiously alters the physical state.
Of course it does, and our actions recognize this. That is why we don't send letters addressed to Jesus and expect the postal service to deliver them. We don't dial heaven on the phone and ask to speak to the Mother of God. But, the scriptures attest that the Church is the mystical body of Christ and therefore she is. There is one body, not two, and it cannot be divided. Suggesting that physical death can overrule the authority of Christ is hardly convincing. If death divides Christ's body then, quite literally, the gates of Hades have overcome it. But, he defeated death, and so he cannot possibly be subject to it, either in his person or his Body the Church.