The cases of corruption that have been on the news in Brazil, covering from frauds against the Social Security to the recent episode of the “monthly bribe payments” in the Federal District of Brazil, demonstrate that the moral crisis that affects the country isn’t a problem of this or that region, this or that social class, as covered by this week’s editorial, entitled Moral crisis, a problem of difficult solution. 

Among the highlights in this edition, we call the reader’s attention to the interview conceded to our collaborator and editor Orson Peter Carrara by the confrere Sebastião Miguel de Lima, a famous speaker from São Paulo, who tells about his start in Spiritism and his divulging work performed with speeches and recently with the book Existe algo Além (There’s something beyond), in which he analyzes the damages from pride, jealousy illusions and the blesses of immortality.  

Another highlight this week is the special report entitled O sexo e a homossexualidade à luz da Doutrina Espírita (Sex and homosexuality under the light of the Spiritist Doctrine), written by the confrere Leonardo Marmo Moreira, from São José dos Campos (state of Sao Paulo).

Web Radio Fraternity, from Uberlândia (state of Minas Gerais), officially launched on February 1st 2009, has celebrated its first year of existence this week, as shows the special report that is also a highlight this week. 

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On this date – February 7th – the disincarnation of Auta de Souza took place in the year of 1901. The notable poetess, born on September 12th 1876 in Macaíba (state of Rio Grande do Norte), deceased in Natal, capital of the same state in Brazil, at the age of 24, leaving her only book as a legacy, Horto.  Auta de Souza has participated with 16 poems in the book Parnaso de Além-Túmulo (Parnassus of beyond the tomb), work psychographed by Francisco Cândido Xavier.