In a Roman Catholic parochial school, Sister Marie was teaching the Biblical story of the Ascension of Jesus to a class of elementary children.  Fascinated by the story, one boy in the class asked Sister Marie, “How fast was Jesus traveling when He ascended into the heavens?” Startled at first, Sister Marie caught her breath and replied, “Well, let’s see.  We know that He was not traveling faster than the speed of sound, because the Bible says that He spoke words of blessing to the disciples as he parted from them.” But the young boy was more a child of the Space Age than was Sister Marie, and so he quickly calculated and then came back, saying: “WELL THEN, IN THAT CASE, HE’S NOT THERE YET!” That little story points up the difficulty we have today with the story of the Ascension of Jesus. …