Also, some of those deacons are transitional deacons — on their way to becoming a priest the next year.
Fact remains there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING wrong with married priests. There is NOTHING in the Bible requiring mandatory clerical celibacy. This something that was made up in the Middle Ages, largely to combat corruption and nepotism in the Church. The early popes, bishops, and priests were married men, for at least the first ten centuries of Church history.