Pope Papania

Brother Joseph "T-Ben" Boudreaux is a sede vacantist Catholic and a 21st century anti-pope known as Pope Papania.
Brother T-Ben was born into a poor black family in the settlement of Cutoff, Louisiana in 1959. His parents, Millaudy and Shoefreaux Boudreaux, were sharecropping land squatters who mysteriously disappeared after refusing to leave their riverside shack to make way for the construction of the Lower Algiers ferry landing. This event prominently affected the young orphaned T-Ben, who had to stand on the levee and watch the only home he ever knew, an elaborate series of Coldspot refrigerator crates, burned on the batture. To make matters worse, Millaudy's decomposed corpse washed ashore during the bonfire.
In 1968, Brother T-Ben was placed in the Milne Boys Home in New Orleans, where he learned to play the Jew's Harp from a young Louis Armstrong. He used his newly found musical talent as an outlet for the pain he had endured, plucking poetry on the street corners of New Orleans. The local beat cops became very familiar with him, and after a severe beating in the sally port of central lockup, T-Ben hopped an outbound train, which took him as far as the Alabo Street Wharf.
After an apparition of Saint Claude one dreary night, Brother T-Ben enrolled in the Fourth Greater St. James Missionary Seminary. He immediately devoted his life and art to God. He graduated in 1980 with an associates degree in High School Diploma.
Boudreaux, a lifelong Catholic, saw the injustice in the Roman church on a daily basis. While attending St. Oddo of Cluny parish in the famed lower ninth ward, he often cringed when the racist priest would not only consume the host and wine in front of the desperately poor parishioners, but also eat sandwiches and potato chips while smiling at the starving minions.
Pope Papania has led the People's Catholic Church for over 25 years now, and has received numerous dignitaries such as Earl Hines, Marc Morial and Dyan "Mama D" French. He also was instrumental in the reopening of the We Never Close restaurant after Hurricane Katrina.

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