Can God desire our obedience to her to continue?
We come to you with this question.

What shall we do?
You who profess to be a Catholic, who preach Catholicism, who have the reputation----'" Here Benedetto broke off, saying; "Only some unimportant words follow." And he continued his discourse.
"I answer those who wrote to me, thus: Tell me, why have you appealed to me who profess to be a Catholic?
Do you perhaps think me a superior of the superiors in the Church?
Will you, perhaps for that reason, rest in peace upon my word, if my word be different from what you call the word of the Church?
Listen to this allegory.

Thirsty pilgrims draw near to a famous fountain.

They find its basin full of stagnant water, disgusting to the taste.

The living spring is at the bottom of the basin; they do not find it.