The quote there is " 'It is not to be excluded that I will enter history as the one who split the Catholic Church'. This is an expression of humility, unlike the earlier version we saw here "he will be the one who split the Church". 

The article you cite refers to the confused article I had already seen, that doesn't really say when this was said. It might have been while meeting with some cardinals on his birthday, after the homily he had just given: "there've been beautiful moments of faithfulness and brutal moments of sin. But the Lord is there, with his hand stretched out to pick us up and say: "Go forward!" And this is the Christian life: go forward" That whole discussion of history and memory might be the context for his remark. That isn't the way people are twisting it.

Thanks for the reference.