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You won’t hear me defending prayers to any saints, angels, or other important Christian personages. Since all honor and veneration is due to God alone, any prayers in worship done to anyone but God are wrong.

It is one thing to respect and honor great Christians of the past, quite another to erect statues for the purposes of prayers to them...

I challenge you to read say the book of Acts or, any of the letters of Saints Paul or Peter, and ask yourself if worship full of statuary and prayers to anyone other than God, was any, ANY part at all, of how they worshiped in that first generation?

"Since all honor and veneration is due to God alone, any prayers in worship done to anyone but God are wrong."

Very slick use of language there. I notice how you qualify that statement with "in worship". So what about prayers, not in worship, done to anyone but God? Say for example, prayers to your Mom or your brother or your neighbor...those are of course not wrong. Do you believe that prayers to a loved one that has died (and you presume to be in heaven) are wrong? I doubt it.

So, what is wrong with praying to Saints in heaven, or Archangels, or Mary? How are they so different than prayers to a neighbor or a loved one that has passed away? Haven't you ever heard a person ask another person to pray for them? I've seen it at protestant churches. A person will ask the pastor to pray for them, for example. Well, if you can ask your pastor to pray for you, why can't you ask a Saint to pray for you, or Mary for that matter?

I don't think you can find any language in any of the official Catholic prayers to Mary or any of the Saints that constitutes worship in any way.