You say you described the situation to these 70 parishioners but from the tenor of your comment it would seem that you yourself are biased. What you describe is 'papalism' or even 'papolatry' as you say that the parishioners thought that the pope was infallible in matters of Faith and Morals.
Did you ask them if this infallibility only applied to the current pope and that the infallibility of previous popes died with them so that the current pope could contradict his predecessors?