I guess it is easy to want to believe.
Prophecy can be very difficult to decipher, especially if it is heavily coded (think Revelations). It comes through the filter of the individual which must be taken into account. Early on some of the Church Fathers dismissed St. John's book but it made it into the final canon nonetheless.
End result, prophecy can only be interpreted after the fact. Some people are into it, some people aren't. Nostradamus and St. Malachy have been wrongfully maligned for centuries.
But you can't take it too seriously.