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In the party there was also a group named Ethic-Religious Council, whose board members included Gaetano Rebecchini ( founder, ex-DC ), Riccardo Pedrizzi ( president ), Franco Tofoni ( vice president ), Luigi Gagliardi ( secretary-general ), Alfredo Mantovano, Antonio Mazzocchi and Riccardo Migliori.

This was not a faction but an official organism within the party and expressed the official position of the party on ethical and religious matters.

Sometimes the group criticized Gianfranco Fini for his liberal views on abortion, artificial insemination and stem-cell research, which led some notable ex-DC members as Publio Fiori to leave the party.

Some members of the Council, such as Pedrizzi and Mantovano were described as members of an unofficial Catholic Right faction.