I have a "real issue" with people who bitch about a theology they don't understand--especially when they can just Google to read up on it.
We Catholics worship God (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) but we also pray [as in ask] for intercession to the Saints and the Blessed Virgin Mary.
We pray for intercession because the Saints and the Holy Mother of God take an active interest in our life down here and it is part of God's plan for us and them that we do so.
It is hardly worship when we are praying to the saints to pray to God for us.
To put this in context:
Asking for intercession, is no different than asking some fellow believer to pray for you. The only difference is that you're asking for the prayerful help of a person you know is in Heaven (the sine qua non of being a Saint).
OK I get that part of it (and thank you for not calling me 'ignorant' like some other loving christians here) but as long as you are praying, why not pray right to God and not to someone else to 'pray for you'.
That leads to my original question- is praying to Mary somehow better than praying right to God?