Disney publishes book bashing the Catholic Church

McCarthy shown here mocking out Catholics and prayer, while promoting her new Disney book.

Jenny McCarthy, the former Playboy centerfold parlayed her nudie shots into a long list of TV gigs, and six best-selling "humor"/advice books. Her latest is called "Bad Habits: Confessions of a Recovering Catholic."

She's wearing a nun's habit on the cover.

She wrote a note to potential readers promising the book is "sinfully hilarious" and "always outlandish." She insists Catholicism "has pervaded my life since birth and confused the f—k out of me for about the same time," to the point where "I had to give up giving s—t up for Lent."

ABC granted three interviews to the 1993 Playmate of the Year, including "The View" and a feature on "Nightline," where reporter/publicist Juju Chang walked with McCarthy through her old neighborhood on the south side of Chicago and helped her reprise slogans from the book like "Jesus was my [Justin] Bieber."

As they talked about her new Playboy centerfold spread this year at age 39, "Good Morning America" co-host Elizabeth Vargas replied, "Hey, amen."

Stephen Colbert, playing "guest host" asked McCarthy if she still goes to church, and she said no.

"OK, you know you're going to Hell, right? ...he said “There's only one true bride of Christ. And it is the Catholic Church. I don't mean to bring you down at the end, and it was a lovely segment, but you are going to Hell."

McCarthy played along said: "Why don't we break some commandments together? I can teach you."

There's a reason ABC granted all this publicity: her Catholic-bashing book is published by Hyperion, part of Disney Publishing Worldwide. Hyperion made a promotional video for their website, complete with fake nuns (including one that was obviously a male) who invited Jenny to their "reading group" with the goal of "saving her soul." Then they refused to shake her hand and one threw a book at her head.

McCarthy, in the video, concludes, "If there's a Hell, there's no doubt I'm going. Might as well have a blast and party on down all the way to Hell."

McCarthy's book refers to her early life when she said she came to church without any underwear and loved the squeaking noise of her bare buttocks on the wooden pew.

Disney, through Hyperion, is promoting the book as a big book publication.