"Maybe the devil didn't have your accommodations ready." McCarrick's Allusion to his Roman Condemnation

There is a very perplexing anecdote told by the then Cardinal Theodore McCarrick in his notorious 2013 Villanova address (minute 9:17) where he bragged about cooperating with a conspiracy to elect Bergoglio Pope Francis.

Cardinal McCarrick recounts that he was deathly ill in Rome and on the evening of the day of Pope Francis' Installation as Pope, March 19, 2013, he received a call (at the seminary, where he was staying) from the Pope. In the conversation McCarrick said: "Holy Father, I guess the Lord still has some work for me to do." To which the Holy Father replied, "Well, that may be true. On the other hand, maybe the devil didn't have your accommodations ready." McCarrick: "To which I said nothing. But, inside I'm saying, you think that was an infallible statement?"

That anecdote, referencing a damning comment by the Pope, is only now intelligible after the Viganò report revelation detailing the intrigue regarding Pope Benedict's disciplining of McCarrick and of Pope Francis' awareness of that action and his subsequent reversal thereof.