"Predictability" as a tool generally favors conservatives.  It typically means that everything stays THE SAME, even when they need to change.  For many conservatives, both Catholic and non-, the Catholic church is and they think ought to be the ultimate refuge of the predictable and of the "Catholic way."  For centuries the hierarchy of the Catholic church has been far more predictable than prophetic -- not a good omen for the next four years of Trump-ism and Trumponomics.