Your deliberate mistatements about true Catholic teaching are disengious. Not unexpected, however.
I asked a question....I didn't make a statement.
One of your fellow Roman Catholics seems to suggest that happens.
But as you raise the point...what's the difference in the Roman Catholic world of praying to Mary or any other saint or a departed loved one?
I know ya'll pray for the dead but at that point it's too late. Their eternal destiny has already been determined. It's either Heaven or Hell.
There is no purgatory where you go to get cleaned up.
24For Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; 25nor was it that He would offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the holy place year by year with blood that is not his own. 26Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
27And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment, 2
8so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.
Hebrews 9:24-28 NASB
For your own sake, you sure better hope there's a Purgatory.