I notice that you did not really ask a question, but merely stated your opinion.
At any rate, let me comment on what you said.
- You mentioned “dead saints”. While of course the dead are gone from us, but they are not dead to God. I say this because Jesus said so. Matthew 22:31-32 says, “And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living.”” Again, in the episode of the transfiguration, Jesus was seen speaking with Moses and Elijah. These are biblical proofs that not only the dead are alive to God right now, but that they are active.
- If they are alive to God and are active, we believe some of them are in heaven, seeing God face to face. I know some Protestant brothers and sisters do not believe in that, saying that they are in some sort of suspended animation. But that is also biblically unfounded. While it might be true for Old Testament time, all Christians believe that Jesus took care of that prison right after He died on the Cross. The dead destined for salvation are not held back from heaven. Death and the devil have no more hold on them. These words are in your hymns too, I know.
Meanwhile, the Church has in her earliest records miracles upon miracles obtained through the intercession of the saints. These are immediate, radical, medical miracles, and the Church has been very careful and prudent in approving them, especially in recent centuries. It is well known that for a saint to be beatified, a medical miracle needs to be obtained after the saint in consideration has died. The miracle has to be clearly related to this one saint, and not from asking for intercession from multiple saints, and that the resulted medical healing is immediate, complete and medically inexplicable. And for canonization, another miracle of the same requirement needs to be obtained after the date of the beatification. This used to be two miracles per stage. The Church is so strict and seemingly skeptical because she wants to say without doubt that unless this person is in heaven actively interceding before God, these miracles could not have been obtained. Amazingly, thanks be to God, we continue to receive them through the saints in great frequencies throughout the centuries, many of them well documented. Let those with ears, listen.
- While it is true that as Christians, we all pray to God, it is also true that as Christians we all pray for each other. And of course, we all pray in Jesus’ name, or in the name of the Trinity. But we also pray for each other as a family. And if we pray for each other as a family on earth, why can’t we also pray for each other as a family of both heaven and earth, since our friends the saints are in heaven, alive and active before God?
And that’s why in the Creed, we have “I believe in the communion of the saints”, for we are one family in Christ, and we lift each other up in Jesus’ name.
I know that there is a lot of misunderstanding out there about Catholics, believing incorrectly that we Catholics worship Mary or the saints, or we pray not only in Jesus’ name but also in other saints’ name, or things like that. These are not what we believe as Catholics. We do not worship saints; we do not offer sacrifices to saints; we do not invoke the name of Mary or any other saints for divine powers or healings, except insofar as inviting them to pray for us or to invoke Jesus’ name on our behalf, which we also do with our Christian friends on earth. We Catholics sometimes show great affection and devotion to certain saints, but that’s because we get to know them so well and have benefited tremendously from their faithful friendship and powerful intercession over the years. But please do not confuse this familial bond with worship or idolatry. That is simply not what we believe.