This scene from President John F. Kennedy’s gruesome assassination, painted by Mark Balma in 2004, was hung in the Vatican Cathedral of St. Paul. The painting is entitled “Pietà” after Michelangelo’s famous sculpture of Mary holding the body of the crucified Christ, which is also located at the Vatican.
Balma offered the five-by-seven-foot oil tempera painting to several museums, including the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Smithsonian. Both turned it down for being either too emotional or inappropriate. But when he approached the St. Paul Cathedral, it became the inspiration for a week-long event examining the assassination in 2006.
Isn’t this a macabre way to “celebrate” the life of perhaps America’s most beloved President? or is this rather an homage to the Jesuit agenda, serving as a stern warning/reminder to those willing to cross them? Of course, many people believe the Vatican was directly involved in the assassination.
Also the parallel to the killing of a "savior" figure wasn't lost on anybody. The significance of the Pietà is closely related to medieval spirituality, in particular the imitation of Jesus Christ. All are called to imitate the life and teaching of Jesus Christ. The Vatican featuring this scene is highlighting the death of Jesus, in which "Rome" was seeming to claim credit for once a second time.
Note also, the scene depicted in the painting is at Parkland Memorial Hospital after the assassination. This may have been a tie-in with the more recent Valentines Day, February 14, 2018, school shooting in Parkland, Fla., where a former student allegedly shot 17 innocent people, and was charged with 17 counts of premeditated first-degree murder and 17 counts of attempted first-degree murder by the state of Florida.
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https://www.mprnews.org/story/2006/11/15/jfkpieta
https://spirituallysmart.com/jfk.html
https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/summary-and-timeline-related-to-parkland-shooting-investigation