Protestants have no form of worship so they substitute in singing and praying. The singing of any song other than for God therefore is forbidden as worship and idolatry of whatever the topic of the song is, and asking any other person to pray for them is forbidden because there is only their relationship with God, no communion with other believers.
All of which can be argued from scripture itself. A lot of catholics need to reread their bible and not just go by the doctrine dictated by men. matthew 12: 46-50 is pretty clear about where Mary sits in terms of overall hierarchy.
But you do you man. You're still saved as long as your faith in Jesus is genuine. Just realize that catholics are basically on par with mormons in terms of dogma and unnecessary worship practices.
If you read the post link to the Vatican article, you'd see what they said about Mary. Catholics are the original Christians, there was a Church before there was a Christian Bible and that Church without a Bible had the fullness of truth, the one deposit of faith. You accept the Bible that the Church produced, and the chapters and verses that they placed on the letters and books.
Catholics are the original Christians
Can you show me where, in scripture, that is said? Catholic is the church that endured, but there is NO WHERE in Acts that says ANYTHING about a "Catholic church", a pope, or anything. There is an EARLY church, but there is no direct scripture that ties A to B, and you'll have to excuse me if I don't find ANYTHING the Vatican says as very reliable. For all we know, it could be a situation like the Quran where two sects fight over the main religion, and Catholics just smashed out every other sect of the early church, including some that may very well have been older or direct than they were. We have no direct evidence on this subject besides whatever the Vatican decides to make up.
You accept the Bible that the Church produced,
Bro. Stop. Stop and learn, PLEASE, before you make such an uneducated statement. 200 years ago, ok, when the KJV was the only bible around. But even then, you had translations from people such as Martin Luther, which also discredit you. Modern bible translations are done via original scripts that have been discovered in the 2000 years since Jesus lived. NONE of the bibles I use on a daily basis have a scriptural basis on work done by that church. Quite the contrary, they are translations of the source hebrew, greek, ararmaic scripts directly to english. You can't even make the arguement that the church "carried the bible through history and formated it for us" because, pretending for a second that the catholic church never existed, we STILL could rewrite the entire bible based on all the original scrolls we have without ever touching a Vatican source.