Married Priests?

This article from the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel Website talks about the Archdiocese of Milwaukee getting it's first Married Priest. http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=776571 I read the article and find it disturbing.  Why is ok for someone who is a married Minister in another faith to decide to convert to Catholicism and they can be ordained as a priest but that anyone is Catholic already can only become a priest if they decide to pursue that avenue before getting married?  Even Deacons can only be married if they were married before they became a Deacon. Let me clarify my point here.  I don't have a problem with this married priest coming to our diocese.  I think that the entire restriction from having married priests is wrong.  In the article they explain how this is allowed and in it they quote Pope Paul as saying that celibacy is not required by the nature of the priesthood.  It is a redical sign of commitment but it is not essential.  So if one Pope in the past has said that it is not a requirement then why is the Catholic Church so against allowing this when it would probably help our priest shortage around the world?

 

Courts are too soft on drunk drivers

This weekend here in the Milwaukee area we had another fatal car crash caused by a drunk driver.  A 38 year old woman who was 7 months pregnant and her 10 year old daughter were killed in the crash.  The person that hit them had recently lost his license to drive after being convicted of drunk driving for the 3rd time. Unfortunately this is not the first time we have heard about someone who should not be on the road hurting someone else.  It is time that the courts wake up and treat drunk driving like the serious offsense it is.  Too often they treat it like some kind of disease that the person has to get treatment for and there are no really serious penalties.  If this person would have been locked up like they should have been then these lives would not have been lost.  Drunk driving is a real problem and we have to start treating it as such.  If someone is convicted of drunk driving they should be going to jail and not just getting a slap on the wrist like taking their license away.  We know they are going to drive anyway and will probably drink anyway too.