{"id":1554,"date":"2007-07-09T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T08:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2007\/07\/raising-a-little-hell.html"},"modified":"2007-07-09T08:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T08:07:00","slug":"raising-a-little-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2007\/07\/raising-a-little-hell.html","title":{"rendered":"Raising a little Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a> From Melbourne, Australia comes this word<\/a> of a Catholic schoolboy with an unfortunate surname: <\/p>\n

The Hell family says it may tell a Catholic school in Australia where to go after it objected to enrolling their son because of his name. <\/p>\n

Officials said the boy had been offered a place at the St. Peter the Apostle school in the southern city of Melbourne after discussions between the principal, the parish priest and the family over his name. <\/p>\n

But Alex Hell said he would rather send 5-year-old Max elsewhere because the school balked at taking the boy over his family name. <\/p>\n

“We are the victims of our name,” Hell said Monday. <\/p>\n

Hell said he and his wife approached St. Peter the Apostle school about enrolling Max because the boy was being bullied at his current school because of his name, the Herald Sun newspaper reported on its Web site. <\/p>\n

The Catholic school supported a plan to enroll Max using his mother’s maiden name, Wembridge, but then withdrew its invitation when the parents changed their minds about the name, Hell said. The school backed down and offered Max a place only when Hell took the issue to the media, he said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/i> Evidently, the name “Hell” means “bright.” <\/p>\n

So saying, “You really are hell, Max,” is a compliment.<\/p>\n

Photo: From “The Omen,” 20th Century Fox <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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