I checked your US News  source and Notre Dame was not among the highest ranking US. Universities listed. Also, while the main report did not specifically state that ND re-instated contraceptive coverage for its women staff and students, saying they will put that off until next year, there was a video at the bottom of the report you may have missed, saying that  ND reinstituted that coverage. ND had initially refused that coverage even though it did not have to pay for it. It was ND's imposition on others that its claimed freedom of religious belief motivated such an action.

The ND Theology courses are some of those I was referring to that teach but do not impose.