HIV infections are spreading quickly in the Philippines in addition to COVID-19. According to the statistics provided in James McTavish’s essay, “Fast and Furious: The HIV Epidemic in the Philippines,” cumulative data from 1984 to 2019 show that 69,512 people are infected with HIV, 65,162 of whom are males. McTavish also notes that “while heterosexual sex was the dominant mode of transmission from 1984 to 2006, the group now most at risk of transmitting HIV is the so-called MSM—males who have sex with other males” (p. 100). What is particularly alarming, moreover, is that most of the reported HIV cases are among young men and even adolescents. According to McTavish, a cultural factor that may explain this is the high degree of acceptance of homosexuality in the country. The HIV epidemic thus poses a great challenge for the local Church to explain effectively its moral teachings regarding homosexuality, particularly the important distinction that needs to be made between homosexual orientation, which may not be the fault of a person, and homosexual acts, which are sinful. – F. Ramirez (ed.)