I used to go pretty regularly to the prayer (Rosary) vigil outside Planned Infanticide in Brookline. There were always a handful of nuns and a priest. Nevertheless, I have the feeling that these were the faithful remnant. Cardinal Law did little if anything publicly to make Kerry and Kennedy uncomfortable. Cardinal Law would walk in the annual March for Life, but I remember Phil Kotter (the Boston equivalent of Joe Scheidler) holding a huge "Excommunicate Kerry and Kennedy" sign and staring daggers at him.
This is an understatement. After the shooting at the Brookline clinic, didn't Law shut down all pro-life protests in the entire diocese? And wasn't he seen on TV flouncing around the Kennedys whenever another one of them died in some self-inflicted accident and needed a showy funeral?