Not only that, but...
St. Sixtus 1 (c. 115): “The Sacred Vessels are not to be handled by others than those consecrated to the Lord.”
Pope St. Eutychian (275-283)
Forbade the faithful from taking the Sacred Host in their hand.
St. Basil the Great, Doctor of the Church (330-379): “The right to receive Holy Communion in the hand is permitted only in times of persecution.”
St. Basil the Great considered communion in the hand so irregular that he did not hesitate to consider it a grave fault.
The Council of Saragossa (380): Excommunicated anyone who dared continue *receiving Holy Communion by hand.*
This was *confirmed* by the Synod of Toledo.
Saint Leo the Great read the sixth chapter of Saint John’s Gospel as referring to the Eucharist (as all the Church Fathers did).
Pope St. Leo the Great (440-461) energetically defended and required faithful obedience to the practice of administering Holy Communion on the tongue of the faithful.
The Synod of Rouen (650)
Condemned Communion in the hand to halt widespread abuses that occurred from this practice, and as a safeguard against sacrilege.
Rouen (650): “Do not put the Eucharist in the hands of any layman or laywoman but *only in their mouths.”
The Sixth Ecumenical Council, at Constantinople (680-681)
*Forbade the faithful to take the Sacred Host in their hand,* threatening transgressors with excommunication.
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) “Out of reverence towards this sacrament [the Holy Eucharist], nothing touches it, but what is consecrated; hence the corporal and the chalice are consecrated, and likewise the priest’s hands, for touching this sacrament.” (Summa Theologica, Part III, Q. 82, Art. 3, Rep. Obj. 8).
The Council of Trent (1545-1565) “The fact that only the priest gives Holy Communion with his consecrated hands *is an Apostolic Tradition.”*
Maybe we can first hypnotize Bergoglio into requiring the Syro-Malamar Catholics to revert to reception on the tongue as well. After that we’ll snap-reform the Novus Ordo back to the dark ages!
What they actually said:
As regards the reception of the sacrament, it has always been the custom in the Church of God that laics receive communion from priests, but that priests when celebrating communicate themselves,[38] which custom ought with justice and reason to be retained as coming down from Apostolic tradition.
What they are describing as "coming down from Apostolic tradition" is that only the priest communicates himself. Everyone else receives the Sacrament from a minister. The passage isn't discussing whether or not receiving on the tongue as opposed to in the hand is of Apostolic origin.
(Just to be clear, I am no defender of communion in the hand, I just don't like sources to be quoted incorrectly.)