Nicholas V

“This could be huge that way,” said Dr. Nicholas V. Hud, a biochemist at Georgia Institute of Technology who was not involved in research.

A bust of Pope Nicholas V, whose 15th century edicts sanctioned the Portuguese to enslave Africans, peers over them.

The bank is housed in the 15th-century Tower of Nicholas V, which Pope Benedict can see from his apartment windows.

The Vatican bank, housed in the 15th-century Tower of Nicholas V, provides financial services to Catholic institutions such as charities and orders of priests and nuns.

As the pope looks down from his apartment in the Apostolic Palace onto the IOR offices in the Tower of Nicholas V below, he can only give such a commitment his blessing.