He said the real message in Genesis was that "the universe didn't make itself and had a creator". .....
(snip)
His statements were interpreted in Italy as a rejection of the "intelligent design" view, which says the universe is so complex that some higher being must have designed every detail.
Seems to me his statement is precisely the intelligent design view which has been the Church's view since the days of St. Thomas Aquinas. I see no rejection of ID here.
The intelligent design being advocated today hints that God is always tinkering with organisms, introducing "irreducibly complex" features and so on. The Cardinal is saying God set it all in motion, and everything unfolded according to the original programming He'd set up. So, no, the two statements do not contradict one-another.