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You do know that your position is not incompatible with Catholic Doctrine and that your counselor was in no way speaking for the Church, don't you?

I know that in theory young earth creationism is permitted (along with theistic evolution), but in practice it is regarded as a sign of disloyalty to the Catholic Church and of incipient Protestantism. I also know that Protestant "higher criticism" has been seized on by Catholic apologeticists as a way to discredit sola scriptura

With very few exceptions every Catholic (and Orthodox) on this forum is an evolutionist, including yourself. If a Catholic posts a creationist article by a Catholic creationist he/she is immediately pounced on by his/her co-religionists for "misrepresenting the teachings of the Catholic Church," even though this belief is theoretically permitted. Only defenses of theistic evolutionism are treated as "authentic Catholic teaching."

I hope you realize that I do not approach this issue from the perspective that most do. For me it is solely about the veracity of the Written Word of G-d. Genesis 1-11 has to be as historically true as every other part of the Written Word of G-d or G-d would not have written it. Plus the very idea of G-d having to employ "secondary causes" in order to create the universe when He needs no such thing for any other miracle is simply ridiculous.

"but in practice it is regarded as a sign of disloyalty to the Catholic Church and of incipient Protestantism."

Certainly, those who want to be offended can always find a reason to be. Your problem appears to be with certain Catholics, but you blame the entire Church. Why is that?

Catholic Freepers steadfastly proclaim in these threads that "practice" by Catholics does not set dogma or doctrine. I have even stated that even if 99.9% of Catholics practice birth control that does not mean that the Church endorses it.

I suspect that the issue is bigger than the interpretation of the first 11 books of Genesis. Creation is simply a convenient surrogate.

I suspect that your real issue is with the authority of the Magisterium and your confidence that you can infallibly interpret Scripture for yourself. If you were as orthodox a literalist as you profess then you would be a Cathlolic because of the Revelation regarding the Real Presence and the formation and governance of the Church. You certainly would not blaspheme the Virgin Birth by using terms like "magic babies".