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Annie Phoenix, executive director of the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University, New Orleans, said the planned live streaming would do damage to our souls.

She said, "We are not meant to watch the killing, the maiming, the hurting of other people." Mary Grabar, a former federal prosecutor and now professor at the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, raised questions as to the legality as well as the efficacy of the planned live streaming.

She explained that of the four main theories of punishment, which are specific deterrence, general deterrence, physical incapacitation of an offender, and retribution, none of them appear to be served by this.

[upbeat music]And finally, with Pope Leo hospitalized as he recovers from lung cancer surgery, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, the newly elected Dean of the College of Cardinals, presided over the closing mass today for the Vatican's meeting on marriage and family.

Okay, good afternoon and welcome to this conversation with author Luke Burgess.

I'm Kevin Walsh, Knights of Columbus professor of law in the Catholic tradition here at the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law.

This afternoon's conversation is sponsored by CIT, the Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, and is offered as part of our project on judicial virtues.

But this event is a conversation with Luke Burgess, a man of many talents who has invested them wisely, including to yield his authorship of this book we're discussing today, The One and the 99, Forging Identity in the Age of Social Contagion.