The pastor was ordained by a Maronite bishop, so you're good. He is a former Episcopalian that was received directly into that rite.
Maronite convert leads city parish (southcoasttoday.com)
It's rather unfortunate that for such a large city, the liturgical options are awful.
LOL ... I like to look one generation more, to see the origins of said Maronite Bishop. If you could get his name, he could be looked up on catholic-hierarchy.org. As a rule, they tend not to pick bishops from priests who had come over from other Rites, but I know of one Ruthenian bishop who had been ordained an NO priest.
In any case, he doesn't have Lebanese/Arabic background himself, so even less reason to feel awkward, and it said this about his church:
"So many Roman Catholics came to worship and fell in love with Maronite spirituality," Father Jack said. "Ninety percent of the parish were Latin Catholics."
This is undoubtedly due to people fleeing the NO and the NOM, and not just because they "fell in love with Maronite spirituality". So at least you're probably looking at more conservative types, who had enough Catholic sense to walk away from the NO. I was told the same thing by one Ukrainian Rite priest from the Pittsburgh area, that most of his church were refugees from the Roman Rite who "didn't like the changes of Vatican II."
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