'Hell' Boy Barred from Catholic School

CANBERRA, Australia – A row is erupting at a Victorian Catholic school in Australia after a priest refused to enroll a child whose surname is Hell.

Alex Hell, the father of 5-year-old Max Hell, told media that his son was refused entry at the St. Peter the Apostle School in the southern city of Melbourne because his surname could cause problems for the student.

But the name is “our heritage,” Hell told The Age after he rejected an offer to enroll his son on the condition that Max use his mother's maiden name, Wembridge. Hell, a 45-year-old Roman Catholic father of three, said he had Austrian heritage and that the name means "bright."

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