This isn't ignorance of the Catholic faith, it's your ignorance of the Word of God. You have been TOLD by the church that it is praying to a friend for assistance, but God doesn't need an intercessor between you and Him. It is CLEAR in the Bible that you are to pray to God in the name above all names, Jesus.
There is not one instance of any of the apostles or Jesus invoking any other name in Scripture. Jesus Himself said to pray "Our Father, which art in Heaven". It is a tradition of men and in ERROR. It has evolved into Mary had no other children when she clearly DID, and now she is supposed to have just ascended to Heaven? Made up myth! That is Mary worship made up out of someones imagination.
INDEED. THANKS. GOOD POINTS.
This whole thread began with one of the most outrageously illogical; outrageously absurd notions I could have imagined in my worst nightmare. It's mind boggling that anyone would want to be associated with it unless they have a masochistic obsession with humiliating themselves.
It's akin to saying something like . . . THE ONLY WAY FOR UNITY AND PEACE BETWEEN JIHADI'S AND CHRISTENDOM IS FOR CHRISTIANS TO ACCEPT THE SACRAMENT OF BEHEADING AS THE GLORIOUS LIGHT-BRINGING RITUAL THAT IT IS."
It must take some collection of demonically influenced political powermongering magicsterical to come up with such overtly absurd irrational nonsense. Oppressed, possessed individuals just wouldn't be able to be THAT absurd and irrational--it takes a collection of such, evidently.
Well, that sums up the Roman Catholic hierarchically quite nicely!