Leading the Little Ones to Christ

Dr. H. Steiglitz and Rev. Michael Gatterer, S.J., both German educators, established a technique of teaching the Catechism to youngsters in the early twentieth century that was inspired by Our Lord's teaching through parables. The lesson is more readily received and comprehended when it initially appeals to the child's imagination via stories or visuals.

This approach, which became known as The Munich approach, was introduced to the United States by Rev. George Dennerle, who here gives an English translation and modification of one of the movement's primary manuals, Augustine Gruber's Elementarkatechesen.