Pallbearers place casket of retired Auxiliary Bishop Joseph M. Sullivan into hearse following funeral Mass at New York church

Pallbearers place the casket of retired Auxiliary Bishop Joseph M. Sullivan of Brooklyn, N.Y., into a hearse following Bishop Sullivan’s funeral Mass at St. Ephrem Church in the Dyker Heights neighborhood of the New York borough of Brooklyn June 12. Bishop Sullivan, whose work on behalf of the poor for Catholic Charities in Brooklyn and Queens earned him national recognition, died June 7 as a result of injuries he suffered in a May 30 car accident. He was 83. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) (June 12, 2013) See OBIT-SULLIVAN June 10, 2013.