Message concerning Jon Sobrino's Chistology / the Directors of Concilium -- Foreword / Peter Piot -- Editorial -- AIDS in different regions. The integration of long-term AIDS patients in Brazil / Peter and Lisette Eicher. HIV/AIDS and black communities in Britain : reflections from a practical black British liberation theologian / Anthony G. Reddie. The HIV/AIDS scenario in India : prevention of mother-to-child transmission in a rural district of South India / N.M. Samuel. Life-affirming African theological reflection on HIV and AIDS / Isabel Apawo Phiri. Obituary / Beatrice Were -- The discourse in moral theology. Is AIDS a divine punishment? : excessive metaphysical interpretations of a biological phenomenon / Frank Sanders. Four of the tasks for theological ethics in a time of HIV/AIDS / James Keenan -- Experiential approaches. Metaphor, illness, and literature, or lunch with Nikolay Stepanovich / Steve Dowden. The memory book / Carol Lindsay Smith -- Global justice and AIDS. AIDS, global justice, and Catholic social ethics / Lisa Sowle Cahill. Escaping the gender trap : unravelling patriarchy in a time of AIDS / Gillian Paterson. HIV/AIDS : a commentary / Regina Ammicht Quinn and Hille Haker.