Can a priest refuse to distribute the Eucharist on the tongue?

[lesliecarol]

Recently, my boyfriend and I went to Mass at a church that we had never been to before. When he held out his tongue to receive the Eucharist, the priest refused to administer it to him unless he extended his hands. As I understand it, it is the choice of each individual Catholic whether they receive the Eucharist in the hand or on the tongue. Was the priest wrong in this refusal?

 

[Fr.Charles_Grondin]

No, the priest cannot refuse to distribute communion on the tongue.

Redemptionis Sacramentum

[92.] Although each of the faithful always has the right to receive Holy Communion on the tongue, at his choice, if any communicant should wish to receive the Sacrament in the hand, in areas where the Bishops’ Conference with the recognitio of the Apostolic See has given permission, the sacred host is to be administered to him or her