Catholic School Opens Gates to Hell Boy

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- The Hell family has protested to a Catholic school in Australia after it objected to enrolling their son because of his name.

Officials said the boy had been offered a place at the St. Peter the Apostle school in the southern city of Melbourne after discussions among the principal, the parish priest and the family over his last name.

But Alex Hell, 45, said he would rather send 5-year-old Max elsewhere because the school balked at taking the boy because of his family name. Hell said he had Austrian heritage and that the name means "bright."

Hell, a Roman Catholic father of three, said he and his wife initially offered to enroll Max using his mother's maiden name, Wembridge, but later changed their minds.

"It just didn't sit right," Hell told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

He said the school withdrew its offer of enrollment for the boy, and only backed down when Hell took his story to the media.

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...didn't the Catholics have a Cardinal Sin?
Fixed spelling of Sin.

Yes, in the Philippines

They're so unbelievably stupid and ignorant of other languages on this planet...

"Hell" is German and just means "Bright".
Counts also for names like "Hellman(n)" or "Heller.
The name probably comes from people who used light in any way, probably the men who lighted the lanterns.

Thoes aren't names from the "dark" side... quite the opposite!

...is obviously stupid based on his family's last name. But let's change it a little and say the parents named him Hellmaker Jones or some such. Would their discussion still be as dumb

:boring:

If someone wanted to enroll a kid called Lucifer Satan Fuckthepope Christ, I can see how they'd have a problem with that. But in this case...
Did they think the family were Satanists (without speaking to them)? Are they worried that the kid might be the antichrist? Is their thinking stuck in the middle ages?

How dare you acuse the Catholic church of being stuck in the middle ages!!! It will be many decades before they get to that era! :D

Given the pope's native tongue, this is especially ironic.