I have always been with the understanding that only a Pastor can contact the dead for a parishioner in good standing with the Church. While regular people like you and I can pray (and hope God is willing to listen to us, no matter how much He hates us for being deplorable), a Pastor Like Ezekiel Flint talks with God several times a day, making arrangements, taking instructions. Pastor Flint may ask God to bring a dead person to one of the meetings and arrange for a HCC® (HeavenlyCloudConference). One thing I've learned over the years is that only those that went to Heaven may be brought by God to these conferences. To talk to one in Hell, you'd have to make a pact with Satan. A Fools Folly.
Seriously, some whore from Long Island had Gods' direct number?
Deuteronomy 18:10-13
10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.
11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
13 Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
Numbers 21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Matthew 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Matthew 10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.