I don't know that they've LED the way, but they've certainly followed it. They're seemingly more bent on political correctness than on preserving any notion of piety.
By the way, I stopped at the campus ministry office at Notre Dame one day, looking for someone I was supposed to greet for a mutual friend. There was no answer, no answer, then an attractive young woman came out, rather flustered. Then the priest came out, even more flustered, and very curious about what got me there so late in the day. I explained and it was very awkward.