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The "photographer" explains: "If you look carefully at the frame, you will see a slightly wide band of dark area that runs from the head of a marine with dark hair in the back row up to the singer. Look carefully at the wall from that marine’s head up to the top of the frame and you will see the blurred cable that was in motion because the dancer was moving it as she spoke to the marines. The full cable is in the shot but is blurred. The reason it isn’t sharp is because the frame was shot...

DUNDALK, Md. (CNS) -- For much of her life, Bernadette Gietka has dreamed of writing and producing a musical that would celebrate the sanctity of life. But the parishioner of Holy Rosary Church in Baltimore had never been able to scrape together enough money to get the project off the ground. Frustrated by constant roadblocks, Gietka decided to let God know she needed help. She went to the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore, where she reverently knelt after Communion and, for the first time, prayed to God while she was angry with him. Gietka, 54, laughed heartily and...