I guess I don't know the prediction but I do know that the Benedictines ran the inquisition. I have thought for a long time that the Inquisition got a bad rap given the culture and context of the time. It actually was the first stirrings of due process. Trial by whatever.
It was the Dominicans who ran the inquisition. The Benedictines are an order of basically isolated monasteries, without the same sort of organization as preachers and workers against heretics that the Dominicans were founded to be.
You are right. By justice of the era, the church courts were more fair and just than the state run courts.