Hugo Gonçalves, the Daddy, 
returns to the Spiritual Home

Our dear friend Hugo Gonçalves, Director of the newspaper O IMORTAL (The Immortal), disincarnated on the morning of October 15, Tuesday, nine days after having celebrated 100 years of age. The body, after being veiled in the main hall of the Allan Kardec Spiritist Centre in Cambé, was buried the following day. (Read more about Hugo Gonçalves on the topic Paraná in the issue Brazillian Spiritist Movement in this same edition.)

The title of this week’s editorial, "Is Spiritism a science?" is considered an old question about the scientific character of the  spiritist doctrine that always comes back to the surface.

One of the highlights of this edition is the interview given to our collaborator Orson Peter Carrara by the teacher and researcher Otaciro Rangel Nascimento, PhD in physics associated to the Institute of Physics of São Carlos at USP. In the interview, the colleague from Goias talks about the connection between conventional science and Spiritism.

Another highlight is the special article titled  "The Theory of Ancient Astronauts", authored by the colleague João Fernandes da Silva Jr., from Biguaçu-SC. In the article, the author leaves two questions up in the air for the reflection of the readers: Have we in the past been visited by beings from other worlds? If this occurred, what would have been the purpose?

The 7^th Spiritist Congress of Rio Grande do Sul was held in the city of Gramado, from October 4^th through 6^th, having the theme "The Gospel in the World and in the Hearts" as reported by the colleague Paulo Salerno in an article which is also one of the highlights of this edition .

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Yesterday, October 19^th, was the anniversary of the discarnation of Cesare Lombroso who was born in Verona on November 6, 1835 and passed away in Turin (Italy) on October 19^th, 1909. Lombroso was an Italian scientist, psychiatrist, criminologist and anthropologist who joined Spiritism in 1891, and was the author of the classic "Hypnotism and Mediumship", translated into Portuguese and published by FEB.