>>Your premise is that Catholics pray to Mary as to God.<<
I think you are mixing my posts up with someone else’s. What I have said is they deify her when they say she was perfect, and they use her as an intercessor when there is no need. Christians come straight to Jesus with no middle man.
Do you ask your friends to pray for you? Cannot you ask the Mother of God to pray for you? Do you think she is Blessed among women?