It astounds me that so many Catholics can even entertain the idea that praying to anyone other than God can result in anything. Catholic tradition says that praying to saints, or to Mary, results in divine intervention. How though? Mary never had any divine power. All of the saints never had any divine power. No one on earth, not David, or Jacob, or any of the apostles, none of them had any power of themselves to perform miracles. All miracles and all divinity belongs to God. Why, in our prayers, put an unnecessary intermediary between ourselves and God?