I touch on fame (and focus on calumny) in my piece on turncoats. The peril is real. Those who reject orthodoxy are sadly predictable.

George Weigel, First Things

Handsome, articulate, and a reliable spokesman for the progressive cause of the moment, Küng was one of the first Catholic intellectuals to figure out that the world press couldn’t resist the man-bites-dog storyline in which a Catholic thinker challenges Church doctrine—and does so in ways that confirm progressive cultural biases.