 On February 9, 1997 John Cardinal O'Connor established the new foundation as a "Public Association of Christ's Faithful" in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York.After their canonical establishment, the Sisters accepted an invitation by Bishop Carl Frederick Mengeling to teach in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lansing and began to administer the Spiritus Sanctus Academies located in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Plymouth, Michigan.In 2010 the congregation announced that it had agreed to buy the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, D.C. to be used as a house of studies, but withdrew from the purchase in 2011 to concentrate on building their new priory in the diocese of Austin, TX.